embowerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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Ultimately from 古期英語 būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- +‎ bower.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɛmˈbaʊɚ/

動詞

embower (三人称単数 現在形 embowers, 現在分詞 embowering, 過去形および過去分詞形 embowered)

1. (transitive, poetic) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank,
     Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d

   • 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], OCLC 426050984:

     A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.

   • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Duty and Inclination, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, page 243:

     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; […]

   • 1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott:

     And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott

   • 1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together:

     The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     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."

2. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:

     line 225

     But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

3. (intransitive) To form a bower.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 302-305:

     Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks
     In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades
     High overarched embower; or scattered sedge
     Afloat