embowed

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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)

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 Allbut, Robert

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, in armour, holding a cutlas, all proper.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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