embowed

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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

His legs were slightly embowed, and he bore himself like a man rarely out of the saddle.

From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George

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

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