Definition of Embowered

1. Verb. (past of embower) ¹

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Definition of Embowered

1. embower [v] - See also: embower

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowered

embound
embounded
embounds
embow
embowed
embowel
emboweled
emboweling
embowelled
embowelling
embowelment
embowelments
embowels
embower
embowered (current term)
embowering
embowers
embowing
embowl
embowled
embowling
embowls
embows
embox
emboxed
emboxes
emboxing

Literary usage of Embowered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History by John Lothrop Motley (1868)
"... haunted by faun and satyr, embowered the country, and separated it from Celtic Gaul. Thus inundated by mighty rivers, quaking beneath the level of the ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Now, "gainst the vault's rude walls reclined, The cottage once his sire's he seea, An early image fills his mind: 370 embowered upon the banks of Tees; ..."

3. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Broad avenues, often completely embowered in the shade of giant elms, one ON THE ALHAMBRA HILL. hundred feet in height, lead the way upward in gradual ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"A lofty mansion, which is now naked, cannot be absolutely embowered in the cours? of three years. Trees will not perform such a feat " at the bidding" of ..."

5. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"... and embowered in the midst of beautiful and majestic oaks, he saw a gushing stream of limpid water issuing from its fountain in all its native purity. ..."

6. The American Literary Magazine edited by Timothy Dwight Sprague (1847)
"A SPRING embowered IN TREES. BY AF OLMSTED. The spring! the spring ! the playful spring, That bubbles through the grass, From rock to rock its echoes ring, ..."

7. Pennsylvania School Architecture: A Manual of Directions and Plans for by Thomas Henry Burrowes (1855)
"embowered in trees and surrounded with flowers, it will ornament any situation; and after the Schools shall have been regularly graded, such a School-house ..."

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