embowered, ppl. a.
(ɛmˈbaʊəd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
a. That is surrounded as with a bower, wreathed with foliage; b. lodged in a bower.
1757 Dyer Fleece i. 119 The little smiling cottage warm embow'r'd. 1824 W. Irving T. Trav. I. 317 Seated in the embowered porch of his small parsonage. 1830 Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nts. iv, Imbower'd vaults of pillar'd palm. 1870 Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1879) I. 254 There are ranges of embowered windows. |