bower

(Anglais)

Noun

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Verb

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (obsolete) To lodge.

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: bour

Hérité de ancien anglais: būr

Appartenant à saterlandais: Búur

Appartenant à allemand: Bauer

Appartenant à vieux norrois: búr

Appartenant à danois: bur

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: bur

Appartenant à suédois: bur

Hérité de moyen anglais: boueer

Appartenant à néerlandais: boer

Appartenant à albanais: burrë

In summary

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

Concepts

tonnelle

couvert

gloriette

boudoir

ombre d’un arbre

ancre de bossoir

pergola

Synonymes

arbour

arbor

pergola

boudoir

embower

cottage

chamber

thicket

grove

trellis

square gazebo

shade of tree

bow-maker

bower anchor

booth

dinner party

jollification

meeting

party

🥳

soiree

summerhouse

summer house

Traductions

Laube

prieel

pergola

κληματαριά

emparrado

enramada

glorieta

altana

πέργολα

gloreita

Gartenlaube

Altan

pergolato

emparrat

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