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A leafy hideaway built for romance, long before anyone invented the word date.
means A shady, leafy shelter or garden retreat, often formed by overhanging trees or built with climbing vines on a trellis.
from From Old English 'bur', meaning a dwelling, chamber, or cottage — related to the German 'bauen' (to build) and ultimately the same root that gives us 'be' and 'neighbor' (literally 'near-dweller'). The word originally just meant an ordinary room or house, especially a woman's private chamber; it drifted outdoors and softened into its leafy, romantic sense over time, as poets reached for a cozier word than 'room.'
- bird builder
- male bowerbirds build elaborate bowers to seduce mates
- not a nest
- bowers hold no eggs, purely a courtship stage set
- color coded
- some bowerbirds arrange objects by color to impress
- old english root
- originally meant a dwelling or lady's private chamber