Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of embowering or of placing within a bower: as, the embowerment of Mrs. Pipchin.
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Examples
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However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs Pipchin.
Dombey and Son 2007
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However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs. Pipchin.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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It was a very delightful room, with fine wide outlook -- over towards the church in its dark embowerment of evergreen oaks, which some of the folk would not pass by night; over the long sweep of the land towards Little Sark; then, over to the left, a glimpse of the sea and
Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896
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However choice examples of their kind, too, these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the embowerment of Mrs Pipchin.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1841
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