embowed

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Their live pillars upheaved a thick embowed roof, betwixt whose leaves and blossoms hardly a sunbeam filtered.

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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 Gowans, Adam L. (Adam Luke)

The inn was formerly the private mansion of the Courtenay family, and its sign was one of the family crests, "a Dolphin embowed" or bent like a bow.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

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 crest they use is also nearly the same, viz., an armed arm, embowed, grasping a broken tilting spear.

From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various