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[edit]Noun
[edit]bowre (plural bowres)
- Obsolete form of bower.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Repeated, she to him as oft engagd :
To be return'd by Noon amid the Bowre
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4:
- A stately Pallace built of squared bricke, / ... / Full of faire windows, and delightful bowres
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]bowre
- Alternative form of bour