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embowed
[ em-bohd ]
adjective
- bent; vaulted; arched.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of embowed1
Example Sentences
Il Penseroso": "But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
On the west side the Rambler passes the precincts of Westminster Abbey, beneath whose “high embowed roof†repose the sacred ashes of the illustrious dead.Â
Embowed′, arched, vaulted: bent like a bow: the heraldic term noting anything bent like a bow—as, e.g., the arm of a man.
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof With antique pillars massy proof, etc.â€
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowèd roof, With antique pillars, massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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