embower

Also im·bow·er

[em-bou-er]

verb (used with or without object)

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

embower

/ ɪmˈbaʊə /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• unembowered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of embower¹

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

Example Sentences

Many an Elm Street across America today is planted with some other tree, once was lost the embowering shade of elms that created a quintessential main street view of small-town America.

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The glow of the Christmas rituals I still love best — lights, candles, hearths — would mean little to me without the shadows that embower them.

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Mirror panels the rear wall, reflecting the garden as well as the scalloped awning roof and giving the square footage the breezy feeling of a transparent pavilion embowered by greenery.

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They are nearly always embowered amongst great stately trees, that the forefathers planted when the foundations of the new home were laid.

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They know not what islands, embowered in foliage, lie in those Southern seas—what visions would reward them if they would but "those realms explore."

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