embowed

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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.”

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

Crest—An arm embowed, couped at the shoulder, the hand grasping a hammer, all proper.

From The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil by Flight, Edward G.

On the sign-board is painted "an arm embowed, holding a malt-shovel," underneath which is written,— "Good malt makes good beer, Walk in, and you'll find it here."

From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

Above is the "high embowed roof" of the central tower; around are the stalls set in a screen of woodwork intricately carved.

From Evesham by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

The Cobbs of Adderbury bore "Sable, a chevron argent between three dolphins naiant embowed or, a chief of the last."

From Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various