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A lady’s private room. (Anglo-Saxon bur, a chamber.) (To rhyme with flower.) (See Boudoir.)
“By a back staircase she slipped to her own bower.”—Bret Harte: Thankful Blossoms, part ii.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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