embower

Definition

To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

Etymology

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.

Example Sentences

• "Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d"
• "A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms."
• "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 neighbourhood, might have felt their courage forsake them;[…]"