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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of imboss.

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Examples

  • Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • But it sat exceeding close and handsomly upon him: it was not imbossed on his mind, but enamelled.

    Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

  • The seal set to the king’s charter is the king’s image, imbossed or moulded in gold; and though such charters be expedited15 of course, and as of right, yet they are varied by discretion, according to the number and dignity of the family.

    Paras 30-59 1909

  • The lining of it, imbossed cloth, represented a wild forest foliage, from the top down to the sides, which, in the same stuff, were figured with fluted pilasters, with their spaces between filled with flower vases, the whole having a gay effect upon the eye, wherever you turned it.

    Memoirs of Fanny Hill. 1749

  • The lining of it, imbossed cloth, represented a wild forest-foliage, from the top down to the sides, which, in the same stuff, were figur'd with fluted pilasters, with their spaces between fill'd with flower-vases, the whole having a gay effect upon the eye, wherever you turn'd it.

    Fanny Hill, Part X (second letter) 1749

  • Home Depot sells a product, it comes in a roll, its orange in color, its flexable plastic, it has little squares imbossed in it .....

    BiggerPockets Forums 2010

  • Home Depot sells a product, it comes in a roll, its orange in color, its flexable plastic, it has little squares imbossed in it .....

    BiggerPockets Forums 2010

  • Home Depot sells a product, it comes in a roll, its orange in color, its flexable plastic, it has little squares imbossed in it .....

    BiggerPockets Forums 2010

  • Home Depot sells a product, it comes in a roll, its orange in color, its flexable plastic, it has little squares imbossed in it .....

    BiggerPockets Forums 2010

  • The seal set to the king's charter is the king's image, imbossed or moulded in gold; and though such charters be expedited of course, and as of right, yet they are varied by discretion, according to the number and dignity of the family.

    New Atlantis Francis Bacon 1593

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