embowed

{{Short description|Heraldic attitude indicating curved or arched}}

File:The armoured triskelion on the flag of the Isle of Man.svg]]

Embowed ({{IPAc-en|ɛ|m|ˈ|b|oʊ|d}}) is a term in heraldry and architecture which means:

curved like a bow (when applied to fish, animals or heraldic charges)
bent (when applied to the human arm or leg), or
having an arch or arches but, in the Anglophone heraldries, concave ones, not bulging out convex ones.

Examples

The heraldic examples illustrated show the pile embowed inverted throughout azure of the Coat of arms of the Western Cape,{{cite web| url = http://www.ngw.nl/int/zaf/prov/w-cape.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20020127033727/http://www.ngw.nl/int/zaf/prov/w-cape.htm| archive-date = 2002-01-27| title = International Civic Heraldry - South African Civic Heraldry- WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE}} and the three legs embowed conjoined in the fesse points in armour proper spurred and garnished or of the Triskelion on the Flag of the Isle of Man and its coat of arms.{{cite web| url = http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/m/man.htm| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010417011356/http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/m/man.htm| archive-date = 2001-04-17| title = International Civic Heraldry-United Kingdom MAN}} Fish embowed can be seen in the crest of Thompson Rivers University.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?ProjectID=449&ProjectElementID=1523|title = Thompson Rivers University [Civil Institution]}}

References

Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: An Authoritative Guide to the Terminology of Heraldry by Arthur Francis Pimbley (1908)
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary ed. E. M. Kirkpatrick (W. & R. Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, new edition, 1983)
[http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_e.htm Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry online - E] - accessed 17 July 2007

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