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"ref": "1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott",
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"ref": "1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together",
"text": "The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn",
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"ref": "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars",
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"(transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage."
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"sense": "enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage",
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"(intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower."
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"To form a bower."
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"(intransitive) To form a bower."
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"text": "The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn",
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"text": "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.\"",
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"(transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage."
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"To lodge or rest in or as in a bower."
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"(intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower."
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"To form a bower."
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"(intransitive) To form a bower."
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