embowed
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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
Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
Crest: An armed arm, embowed, holding a lance, erect.
From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 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 Edward G. Flight
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
