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"shadowed" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often stalked (7 letters).
Definitions
Darkened, shaded, or followed closely.
Used in a sentence
“[...] 2d and 3d Gules, a Man's Heart proper, Shadowed Or, betwixt three Cinquefoils Ermine, for Hamilton […]”
“The supporters have rede collares about there nekes "bordered with gold, and are vert" shadowed gules and blew, proper, like parates.”
“Consequently, a month later, by the Maid's desire, the King gave to Guy de Cailly a grant of new arms on a field azure, three heads of cherubim, winged, bearded in flame-colour, which is or shadowed with gules.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Not sunlit”8 letters
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