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shadower|ˈʃædəʊə(r)|
[f. shadow v. + -er1.]
1. One who or something which shadows, adumbrates, or portrays.
1600Surflet Country Farm Ep. Ded. A 4, Those..liuely shadowers and setters forth of natures workes. [1618Owles Alman. 56 Painters, You Beauty-shadowers, that robbe the raine-bow of her colours.] 1822Beddoes Brides' Trag. ii. ii, His words are feeble shadowers Of such pure beauty!
b. One who portrays shadow: tr. Gr. σκιαγράϕος.
1842Wornum in Smith Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq. 691/1 s.v. Painting, Apollodorus..was surnamed the shadower.
†2. Something affording protection. Obs. rare—1.
1691E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Philos. 162 (Tho' not in the holy Book, yet) in the adjunct, shadower or cover.
3. One who follows another in order to keep watch upon his actions, a spy.
1889Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 This seems to have taken the shadowers a little aback. There was a delay in getting out the police cars. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns (1899) 186 Lupus has several shadowers. |