embowed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of embowed
1475–85; < archaic embow to form into an arch ( em- 1, bow 2 ( def. ) ) + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Il Penseroso": "But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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On the west side the Rambler passes the precincts of Westminster Abbey, beneath whose “high embowed roof” repose the sacred ashes of the illustrious dead.
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Embowed′, arched, vaulted: bent like a bow: the heraldic term noting anything bent like a bow—as, e.g., the arm of a man.
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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, etc.”
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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowèd roof, With antique pillars, massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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