Embower

Quick meaning: Embower is a verb meaning (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

Meaning

(transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
2. (intransitive) To form a bower.

Example Sentences

And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn

A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.

Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d

Word Forms

• embowers
• embowering
• embowered

Synonyms for embower

Depending on context, synonyms include bower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bower, imbower, emboss, belay, embay, umbelap.

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