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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of embower.

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Examples

  • The minstrels were embowered in greenery as they played waltzes and quadrilles, which were danced with great zest, and the hall rang with good-humored laughter . . .

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Dropping down through the pungent pines, they passed woods-embowered cottages, quaint and rustic, of artists and writers, and went on across wind-blown rolling sandhills held to place by sturdy lupine and nodding with pale

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • We passed ancient cottages embowered with climbing roses that Edward Elgar must have known as he cycled here on what he called his "trusty steed".

    Country diary: Malvern Hills 2011

  • Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed by the president of this association to look after the welfare of the pines, to study their diseases and remedies, and to investigate how such trees may be increased, planted and transplanted, in order that our borough may in years to come be more than ever embowered among them and achieve enduring fame as Beachwood among the Pines.

    2008 December 18 « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2008

  • Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed by the president of this association to look after the welfare of the pines, to study their diseases and remedies, and to investigate how such trees may be increased, planted and transplanted, in order that our borough may in years to come be more than ever embowered among them and achieve enduring fame as Beachwood among the Pines.

    Beachwood-in-the-Pines « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2008

  • On these occasions, his beloved was left behind, embowered in his apartment, perhaps because he feared someone would steal her away from him.

    The Mirror of Venus Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • On these occasions, his beloved was left behind, embowered in his apartment, perhaps because he feared someone would steal her away from him.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed by the president of this association to look after the welfare of the pines, to study their diseases and remedies, and to investigate how such trees may be increased, planted and transplanted, in order that our borough may in years to come be more than ever embowered among them and achieve enduring fame as Beachwood among the Pines.

    2008 December « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2008

  • Tom picked a few, and they ate them and still said almost nothing until they reached the wrought-iron gate of a community that was embowered by a high red-brick wall.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • Contemporary photos show a nondescript, unkempt home, not a “big, rambling, orchard-embowered house” with a dooryard neat enough to eat off.

    Land of Green Gables 2008

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