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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 (card game), 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

* The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places * Bower Award * 1639 Bower, an asteroid * Bower railway station, Highland, Scotland * A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate * A dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a pergola * An anchor carried at the bow of a ship * A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. boudoir


See also

* ''Pandorea jasminoides'', a vine species also known as the bower of beauty, bower vine or bower plant * Bower House, a grade I listed Palladian mansion in Havering-atte-Bower, England * Bower Fold, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, the home ground of Stalybridge Celtic football club * Bower Place, a shopping centre in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada * Bower Manuscript, a Sanskrit manuscript * Bauer (disambiguation) * Bowers (disambiguation) * Bowery (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation, geo