embowed
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of embowed
1475–85; < archaic embow to form into an arch ( see em- 1, bow 2 ( def. ) ) + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Crest, an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken spear.
From Notes and Queries, Number 232, April 8, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Crest: an arm, embowed, in armour, holding a cutlas, all proper.
From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.
From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George
But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious Cloysters pale, And love the high embowed Roof With antick Pillars massy proof, And storied Windows richly dight, Casting a dimm religious light.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John
The inn was formerly the private mansion of the Courtenay family, and its sign was one of the family crests, "a Dolphin embowed" or bent like a bow.
From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert
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