The word "bower" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a pleasant shady place under trees or a rustic dwelling. Example: "The couple found a secluded bower in the garden, perfect for their afternoon picnic." Alternatives include "arbor" or "grove."
Indeed, he coughed just reaching for his lighter from his reeking smoker's bower on the settee.Giving up seemed impossible.
In the mountains of Papua New Guinea, the male bowerbird collects flowers, moss, berries and man-made items, and fashions them into a bower to attract a mate.Collecting, by one definition, is "the process of actively, selectively and passionately acquiring, possessing and disposing of valued things, often removed from ordinary use and perceived as part of a set".
"That's the astonishing part to see how, with just the words, it scintillates, it sparkles".The players, speaking on live webchats in the "fairy bower" during rehearsal, remark on the strange freedom of leaping in and opening the process to outsiders.
The romantic details of the labyrinth at Woodstock, including the clue that guided King Henry II to her bower, were the inventions of storywriters of later times.
Few modern supernatural ballads are less artificial than "Sister Helen" and "Eden Bower"; and, among re-creations of the historical ballad, "The White Ship" and "The King's Tragedy" are outstanding.
At the end of the century, the Arras poet Adam de la Halle composed two unique pieces: Le Jeu de la feuillée ("The Play of the Bower"), a kind of topical revue for his friends, and Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion (The Play of Robin and Marion), a dramatized pastourelle (a knight's encounter with a shepherdess and her friends) spiced with song and dance.
Common glory-bower (C. speciosissimum), from Asia, is a shrub up to about 120 cm (4 feet) tall that produces clusters of flame-orange flowers above heart-shaped bronzy leaves about 30 cm (1 foot) long.
Bleeding heart glory-bower (C. thomsonae), a woody vine from Africa, has sprays of blooms, resembling bleeding heart, amid glossy, dark-green, oval leaves.
Glory-bower, the genus Clerodendrum (Clerodendron), consisting of about 400 herbs, vines, shrubs, and trees of the tropics, many of which are grown as garden plants.
That these are the products of small, new firms, or of established non-carmaking companies, supports the Bower-Christensen thesis.
Featuring voice talent including Eddie Redmayne, John Hurt and Jamie Campbell Bower, it will either signal the resuscitation of Thomas the Tank Engine, or definitively shunt him into the buffers.
