Today, a café occupies part of the ground floor, its tables and chairs distributed under a leafy bower [ˈbaʊɚ] on the veranda.

bower
noun [ˈbaʊɚ]

Bower is a literary word that usually refers to a garden shelter made with tree boughs or vines twined together.


from Old English būr, meaning “dwelling.” Today, bower is more familiar as a word for a garden shelter made with tree boughs or vines twined together, a meaning that overlaps with that of arbor. (The adjective bowery, meaning “like a bower” or “full of bowers” is used to describe areas that resemble or are filled with these leafy pergola-like structures).

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