bower

suomi-englanti sanakirja

bower englannista suomeksi

1. lehtimaja

2. suojata lehvistöllä

1. buduaari, budoaari

bower englanniksi

1. (senseid) A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

2. {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1572|author=George Gascoigne|title=A Lady being both wronged by false suspect, and also wounded by the durance of hir husband, doth thus bewray hir grief.

3. (quote-book)|title=Soldiers' Women|year_published=1978|publisher=Fontana Books|location=Netley, SA|page=373|passage=Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.

4. A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1748|author=William Shenstone|title=to William Lyttleton Esq.

6. (RQ:Keats Endymion)

7. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.

8. (RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing)say that thou overheard'st us,And bid her steal into the pleached bower,Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,Forbid the sun to enter;(..)

9. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=214|passage=That night Tarzan built a snug little bower high among the swaying branches of a giant tree, and there the tired girl slept, while in a crotch beneath her the ape-man curled, ready, even in sleep, to protect her.

10. {{quote-book|en|year=1979|author=J.G. Ballard|title=The Unlimited Dream Company|section=chapter 30

11. (quote-book)

12. A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male birds during courtship displays.

13. (senseid) To embower; to enclose.

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15. (RQ:Bindloss Dust of Conflict)belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,(..)

16. To lodge.

17. (RQ:Spenser Shepheardes Calender)

18. (senseid) A peasant; a farmer.

19. (senseid) Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and hundred (where the joker is omitted).

20. {{quote-text|en|year=1870|author=Bret Harte|title=Plain Language from Truthful James

21. (senseid) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

22. One who bows or bends.

23. (quote-text)

24. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

25. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

26. (senseid) One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the bow or bow.

27. (senseid) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.