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 antic pillars massy-proof And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
From The Hundred Best English Poems by Adam L. (Adam Luke) Gowans
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
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
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.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut
An arm embowed has the elbow to the dexter, unless blazoned to the contrary.
From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting
