Embowed vs Embower - What's the difference?
embowed | embower |
(embow)
(obsolete) To bend like a bow; to curve.
(poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
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* 1809 , , A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
* 1852 ,
* 1884 , , Bound Together
*1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
*:A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
* 1591 , , Virgil’s Gnat , line 225
To form a bower.
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As verbs the difference between embowed and embower
is that embowed is (embow) while embower is (poetic) to enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.embowed
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Verb
(head)embow
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Verb
(en verb)- Embowed arches. — Sir Walter Scott.
- With gilded horns embowed like the moon. — Spenser.
Derived terms
* embowment (Webster 1913)embower
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Alternative forms
* imbowerVerb
(en verb)- Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d
- A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
- And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
- The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
- But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;