Bower

• 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 ==See also==