embower
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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Browning is spending a luxurious year in Italy—is, at this present writing, with his poetess bride dwelling in some hermit hut in Vallombrosa, where the Etruscan shades high overarched embower.
From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting
The gold all color and grace are folded o'er, The warmth all beauty and tenderness embower, — Thou quiverest at Nature's perfumed core, The pistil of a myriad-petalled flower.
From Poems by Alan Seeger
Bright flowers ornament the gardens, and gay creepers embower doors and windows.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Masses of pink crape myrtle embower some of the old houses, and waxen leaved magnolia trees shade the door yards.
From Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding
One of his most delightful tasks, however, was in aiding Amy to embower the old house in wreaths and festoons of evergreens.
From Nature's Serial Story by Edward Payson Roe
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