Embowed

Embowed (/ɛmˈboʊd/) 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.

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