embowed

[ em-bohd ]

adjective

1. bent; vaulted; arched.

Word History and Origins

Origin of embowed¹

1475–85; < archaic embow to form into an arch ( em- ¹, bow ²( def ) ) + -ed ²

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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. 

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Embowed′, arched, vaulted: bent like a bow: the heraldic term noting anything bent like a bow—as, e.g., the arm of a man.

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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.”

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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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Related Words

• curved
• domed
• rounded