embower

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embower

/ɛmˈbaʊɚ/

Where it comes from

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.

verb embowers · embowering · embowered · imbower

poetic, transitive 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
intransitive 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;
intransitive 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

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@misc{embower_2026,
  title = {embower},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/embower},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}