Lexicographical Neighbors of Bowets
Literary usage of Bowets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Civilisation in Scotland by John Mackintosh (1893)
"... lanterns and bowets set up and lighted at five o'clock in the evening, and to
burn till nine, by the following persons:-Each barber on the highgate, ..."
2. Picture of Edinburgh: Containing a Description of the City and Its Environs by John Stark (1823)
"The first account of the city of Edinburgh being lighted in winter is in the year
1554, at which time the common-council ordered bowets or lanterns to be ..."
3. Old Glasgow and Its Environs: Historical and Topographical by Robert Reid (1864)
"In short distances, ladies frequently made use of hand bowets, having plates of
thin horn in lieu of glass, which afforded a ready light to their footsteps, ..."
4. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1901)
"... and make neat their bowets ; Using such cunning as they did dispose The ruddy
piny with the lighter rose, The monk's-hoods with the bugloss, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"... rejoices in their creative happiness, and troubled life prepares rest from
its toil in many a pleasant place fair as the bowets of Paradise. ..."
6. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"F. From the Council Register of 1554 we find that' owing to the frequent robberies
and assaults at night,' the Council ordered that year' lanterns or bowets ..."
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