bower

A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.

Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

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.

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

While friends arrived in circles gay, To visit Damon's bower

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness; but still will keep / A bower quiet for us, and a sleep / Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

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

[…]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;[…]

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.

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

To embower; to enclose.

O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell / When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend / In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?

[…]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,[…]

To lodge.

Flora now calleth forth each flower, And bids make readie Maias bower

A peasant; a farmer.