Meaning of imbosture | Babel Free

Definitions

embossed work; ornamentation; embossment

obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“set out to the full height ; there nor wants Imbosture nor embroidery”

“Musicall concord stands in a kind of discord, in which vnlike voices doe correspond, making vp altogether one sole Close of proportion, as the dissimilitude of precious stones, and flowres, doe make the gratefull compositiō of Imbosture and Diaprie, so Loue is not caused alwayes by Resemblance, and Sympathie, but by Correspondance, and Proportion, which consisteth in this, that by the vnion of one thing to another, they may mutually receiue one anothers perfection, and so be bettered.”

“Here you behold the modell of a plaine Country mans house, without plaster or imbosture, because it is to be intended, that it is as well to be built of studde and plaster, as of lime and stone; or if timber bee not plentifull, it may be built of courser wood, and covered with lime and haire;”

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