embower

American  

[em-bou-er] / ɛmˈbaʊ ər /

Also imbower

verb (used with or without object)

1. to shelter in or as in a bower; cover or surround with foliage.

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embower British  

/ ɪmˈbaʊə /

verb

1. archaic (tr) to enclose in or as in a bower

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Other Word Forms

• unembowered adjective

Etymology

Origin of embower

First recorded in 1570–80; em- ¹ + bower ¹

Example Sentences

First, the water-works tower rises above the mass of trees which embower the settlement.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

That grey village spire, with its groves of oak and pine, how invitingly it stands! those trees that embower it, once formed a covert for the deer.

From Canadian Crusoes by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland

Such were the surroundings Guy chose to embower the doubts and hesitations that followed close upon the morning when on Wychford down he had been so nearly telling Pauline he loved her.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

The view of the church, as it is approached from Clevedon, is particularly pretty, the woods near it seeming to embower it; whilst from its vicinity a fine prospect is obtainable.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

And I can think I see the groves again, 6 The larches that yon peaceful roof embower; The airy down, the cattle-speckled plain, And the slant sunshine on the village tower.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George