embower

UK /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/ US /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

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

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

2

To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

3

To form a bower.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat

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