bowre

English

Noun

bowre (plural bowres)

1. 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

Anagrams

• Bower, bower

Middle English

Noun

bowre

1. Alternative form of bour