Definition of "embower"
embower
verb
third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered
(transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
Quotations
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 Dynasty. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […]
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; […]
1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 243
A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
(intransitive) To form a bower.
Quotations
Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooksIn Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shadesHigh overarched embower; or scattered sedgeAfloat
1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 302-305