embower
To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
Verb
- To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
- Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d - 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by...
- A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms. - 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch...
- The house stood in a situation so embowered, solitary, and remote from others, that when evening closed in, Mrs. De Brooke and her daughter, had they not reposed their security on the usual tranquillity of the...
- To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
- But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
- To form a bower.
- Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat - 1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel...
Origin
Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.