Ensconce - Word of the day

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Ensconce /in-SKAHNSS/

verb

1 : to place or cover up safely: hide

2 : to build up or settle solidly, easily, or cozily

Cases:

In spite of the fact that kept—and utilized—for quite a long time in a private home, the surprising seventeenth century porcelain bowl is presently securely tucked away behind glass in a nearby historical center.

"Utilizing their solid back legs, female loggerheads burrow until the point that a pit is made that is sufficiently profound to securely hide their eggs." — The Press and Standard (Walterboro, South Carolina), 20 July 2016

Did you know?

You may think about a sconceas a kind of candleholder or light, however, the word can likewise allude to a cautious stronghold, typically one made of earth. Initially, at that point, a man who was hidden was encased in or disguised by such a structure, out of mischief's way. One of the most punctual journalists to apply the verb hide with the general feeling of "stow away" was William Shakespeare. In The Merry Wives of Windsor, the character Falstaff, planning to keep away from discovery when he is astonished amid a desirous minute with Mrs. Portage, says "She might not see me; I will hide me behind the arras." (An arras is a woven artwork or inside decoration.)

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