{{Short description|Heraldic attitude indicating curved or arched}}
[[File:The armoured triskelion on the flag of the Isle of Man.svg|thumb|The Triskelion on the [[Flag of the Isle of Man]]]] '''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]],<ref>{{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}} </ref> 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 of the Isle of Man|coat of arms]].<ref>{{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}} </ref> Fish embowed can be seen in the crest of Thompson Rivers University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?ProjectID=449&ProjectElementID=1523|title = Thompson Rivers University [Civil Institution]}}</ref>
==References== *''Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: An Authoritative Guide to the Terminology of Heraldry'' by Arthur Francis Pimbley (1908) *''[[Chambers Dictionary|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] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809231056/http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_e.htm |date=2007-08-09 }} - accessed 17 July 2007 {{Reflist}} {{Heraldry footer}}
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