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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
imbow .
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Examples
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And for crest, on a wreath of the colours, is an arm imbowed, vested in the uniform of a captain of the royal navy.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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And for crest, on a wreath of the colours, is an arm imbowed, vested in the uniform of a captain of the royal navy.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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The arche of which doore compassing like a halfe cyrcle, was wrought curiouslye and imbowed, and as it were bounde about with laces like beads of brasse, some round, and some like Eglantine berries of a reddish couler, hanging downe after an auncient manner, and foulded and turned in among the tender stalkes.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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First vpon my right hande belowe, I beheld a stilypode or square stone, like an aulter vnder the bases of the columnes, which hauing vpon the vpper parte a conuenient and meet coronice, and accordingly imbowed, the bottome and lowest part in like manner was fashioned, so as the quadrate and aforesayd stilypode, was no broder then long, but a right quadrangule.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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He was a model of a man for five feet ten; square, compact, capitally built in every particular, excepting that his legs were slightly imbowed, which defect probably arose from his being almost constantly on horseback; a sort of exercise in which Jack greatly delighted, and was accounted a superb rider.
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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And for crest, on a wreath of the colours, is an arm imbowed, vested in the uniform of a captain of the royal navy.
Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods Andrew Kippis 1760
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