embower

[em-bou-er]

verb (used with or without object)

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

Also imbower.

Origin of embower

First recorded in 1570–80; em-¹ + bower¹

Related formsun·em·bow·ered, adjective

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Examples from the Web for embower

Historical Examples of embower

This accounts for the wealth of roses which embower the trees and houses.
A Flight in Spring
J. Harris Knowles
Vines were planted that in the course of time would cover and embower it; there was a tiny fireplace for chilly days.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete
Albert Bigelow Paine
Even the grove of banana trees that used to embower his house had been swept away.
The Log of a Sea-Waif
Frank T. Bullen
First, the water-works tower rises above the mass of trees which embower the settlement.
Historic Waterways--Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers
Reuben Gold Thwaites
Embower a cottage thickly and completely with nothing but roses, and nobody would desire the interference of another plant.
Garden-Craft Old and New
John D. Sedding

British Dictionary definitions for embower

embower

verb

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

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