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- adjective
Placed in a secure environment. - adjective
Settled comfortably. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
ensconce .
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Examples
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It's the time when the garden is full of new and constantly changing possibilities every time you step outside, where the farmer's markets are essentially throwing their produce at you and even though the kids are once again ensconced in schoolrooms nobody is quite ready for the warm, golden nights to end.
The Dinners of Summer Sarah 2009
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It's the time when the garden is full of new and constantly changing possibilities every time you step outside, where the farmer's markets are essentially throwing their produce at you and even though the kids are once again ensconced in schoolrooms nobody is quite ready for the warm, golden nights to end.
Archive 2009-09-01 Sarah 2009
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Then Martin ensconced himself upon a lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales.
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Then Martin ensconced himself upon the lower limb of the tree, which had a mossy cushion against the trunk as though nature or time had designed it for a teller of tales.
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I mean, I'm kind of … 'ensconced' is not the right word, but I'm there, I'm here.
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. 2009
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In the meantime Thomas Mugridge, like a drowned rat, was being dragged out from under the forecastle head where he had cravenly ensconced himself.
Chapter 17 2010
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Let's crowbar our way toward that booth, toward the entity ensconced in admirers.
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After Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) threatened Walt (Bryan Cranston) and his family on last week's Breaking Bad, Walt decides it's time to make sure Skyler (Anna Gunn), Junior (RJ Mitte) and Holly are safely ensconced at Hank's house.
Breaking Bad Sneak Peek: Is Walt Ready to Face His Consequences? 2011
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Too wide awake to think of sleeping, I ensconced myself with The
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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Back in the house, Dick found Paula playing to the madrono sages, and ensconced himself on the couch to wait and wonder if she would kiss him good night when bedtime came.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
arby commented on the word ensconced
See stpeter's wonderful essay on it here
June 23, 2007
seanahan commented on the word ensconced
That's a fabulous essay.
June 23, 2007
reesetee commented on the word ensconced
It is indeed!
June 23, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word ensconced
"I encountered no one at first but a footman who, after leading me through several large drawing-rooms, showed me into one that was quite small, empty, its windows beginning to dream already in the blue light of afternoon. I was left alone there in the company of orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire, preciously ensconced behind a crystal screen, in a basin of white marble over which it spilled from time to time its dangerous rubies."
-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 136 of the Modern Library paperback edition
April 20, 2008