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embower

  1. suojata lehvistöllä, ympäröidä, sulkea sisään.

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suojata lehvistöllä puhekieltä To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
(RQ:Milton Lost)

Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, / Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d
1809, w:Washington Irving|Washington Irving, A History of New York …, by Dietrich Knickerbocker
A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms.
1852, w:Alfred Tennyson|Alfred Tennyson, s:The Lady of Shalott|The Lady of Shalott
And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott
1884, w:Donald Grant Mitchell|Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together
The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn
(quote-text)|title=The House Behind the Cedars|chapter=I|passage=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."
puhekieltä To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
1591, w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser, Virgil’s Gnat, line 225
But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
puhekieltä To form a bower.
(rfdate) w:John Milton|John Milton

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weber, freelancer, cheerleader, outsider, loafer, schäfer, penger, suojapenger, rantapenger, tiepenger

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