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Definition of Embowing
1. embow [v] - See also: embow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embowing
Literary usage of Embowing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society (1846)
"Thus Lydgate, " the fresh embowing with ... right as lynee," where the " embowing"
expresses the groups of curved vault-ribs, and the " verges" the shafts ..."
2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1892)
"In the Colleges, he says, " many of the young divines were often seen writhing
and embowing their clergy limbs to all the antics and dishonest gestures" of ..."
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