Bower
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Bower may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Catherine, or The Bower, an unfinished Jane Austen novel
A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games:
The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre
The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer
The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion
Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC.
Places
Bower, South Australia, a town
Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish
Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States
Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States
Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering
Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
Bower (surname)
Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966
E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee
Roger Squires (1932–2023), British retired crossword compiler/setter, one of whose pseudonyms was Bower
Other uses
1639 Bower, an asteroid
Bower (architecture), a dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a variation of pergola
Bower Award
Bower railway station, Highland, Scotland
The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places
A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate
An anchor carried at the bow of a ship
A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. boudoir
The word that Seereax uses in his Youtube videos.
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