# Embowed

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Heraldic attitude indicating curved or arched

The Triskelion on the [Flag of the Isle of Man](/source/Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Man)

**Embowed** ([/ɛmˈboʊd/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English)) is a term in [heraldry](/source/Heraldry) and [architecture](/source/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](/source/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Western_Cape),[1] and the *three legs embowed conjoined in the fesse points in armour proper spurred and garnished or* of the [Triskelion](/source/Triskelion) on the [Flag of the Isle of Man](/source/Flag_of_the_Isle_of_Man) and its [coat of arms](/source/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Isle_of_Man).[2] Fish embowed can be seen in the crest of Thompson Rivers University.[3]

## References

- *Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: An Authoritative Guide to the Terminology of Heraldry* by Arthur Francis Pimbley (1908)

- *[Chambers 20th Century Dictionary](/source/Chambers_Dictionary)* ed. E. M. Kirkpatrick (W. & R. Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, new edition, 1983)

- [Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry online - E](http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_e.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070809231056/http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_e.htm) 2007-08-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - accessed 17 July 2007

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["International Civic Heraldry - South African Civic Heraldry- WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20020127033727/http://www.ngw.nl/int/zaf/prov/w-cape.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.ngw.nl/int/zaf/prov/w-cape.htm) on 2002-01-27.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["International Civic Heraldry-United Kingdom MAN"](https://web.archive.org/web/20010417011356/http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/m/man.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/m/man.htm) on 2001-04-17.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Thompson Rivers University \[Civil Institution\]"](http://archive.gg.ca/heraldry/pub-reg/project-pic.asp?ProjectID=449&ProjectElementID=1523).

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