Pavilion vs Bower - What's the difference?
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As a noun pavilion is an ornate tent. As a verb pavilion is to furnish with a pavilion. As a proper noun bower is .
pavilion English
Noun
( en noun)
an ornate tent
a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
(cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
(anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
* Shelley
- The pavilion of heaven is bare.
Synonyms
* (part of ear) auricle, pinna
Related terms
* papillon
Verb
( en verb)
to furnish with a pavilion
to put inside a pavilion
(figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
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bower English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).
Noun
( en noun)
A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- (Shenstone)
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
- 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;
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(ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
Synonyms
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Verb
( en verb)
To embower; to enclose.
- (Shakespeare)
(obsolete) To lodge.
- (Spenser)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .
Noun
( en noun)
A peasant; a farmer.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.
Noun
( en noun)
Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
Derived terms
* best bower
* left bower
* right bower
Etymology 4
From the bow of a ship
Noun
( en noun)
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.
Etymology 5
From bough, compare brancher.
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
( Webster 1913)
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