bower

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The Calligraphy is a bower of abundance, where visitors can recline in plushly padded, heated and ventilated captain’s chairs, dressed in high-grade Nappa leather: the Relaxation Mode seating package.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

As it did in Robert Longbottom’s 2019 production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical “Into the Woods,” which coincidentally also follows a group of rowdy, mixed-up characters into a supernatural bower.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Both stories of the gabled, 1,500-square-foot house, for instance, are framed at the end of the curving bower like a portrait in a cameo necklace.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2019

Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.

From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018

Once, she and I were clad as Venus, goddess of love, and her son Cupid, and we reclined in a bower.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson