bower
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A bower of roses, fragrant herbs and bodacious blooms might set one gardener’s heart aflutter, while another finds the sweet spot among spiky agaves, exotic palms or a bountiful row of summer raspberries.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2024
Today, a cafe occupies part of the ground floor, its tables and chairs distributed under a leafy bower on the veranda.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Years later, a fig tree from that bower flourishes in London, where a woman named Ada attempts to reconstruct her family’s difficult history before it’s too late.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021
Visiting Barbara Kingsolver on her farm in Appalachia feels like entering some form of enchanted bower.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018
The two women had lived together 'on the far side of the campus in “The Cottage” a shingled bower that occupied a place in school mythology akin to Lincoln’s log cabin in national legend.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing bower
"The Wife of Bath's Tale," Vocabulary from the narrative poem
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"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 5
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