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plural bowres
Obsolete form of bower. quotations examples
Repeated, she to him as oft engagd : To be return'd by Noon amid the Bowre
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
A stately Pallace built of squared bricke, / ... / Full of faire windows, and delightful bowres
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 4