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embowed
(lb en heraldry) bent, curved or arched like a bow. v
(en-past of: embow)
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Embowed
Embowed is a term in heraldry and architecture which means:
- curved like a bow (when applied to fish, animals or heraldic charges)
- bent (when applied to the human arm or leg), or
- having an arch or arches but, in the Anglophone heraldries, concave ones, not bulging out convex ones.
Usage examples of "embowed".
Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.
At the other end, though partly muffled by a curtain, it was more powerfully illuminated by one of those embowed hall-windows which we read of in old books, and which was provided with a deep and cushioned seat.
It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin-worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age.