enrobe
Americanverb (used with object)
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Toss it with fresh lobster chunks, enrobe cutlets with hollandaise and bread crumbs before frying, or make the most luscious broiled oysters you've ever had.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Inside, we were all given a tray of round chocolate shells, which we learned to fill with ganache, seal with meticulously tempered milk or dark chocolate, and gently enrobe in powdered sugar.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
For years the Warner Bros. film studio was run by Alan Horn, known as a deft glad-hander of agents, actors, directors and the sensitive skin that can enrobe them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020
Hornby said he had just that desire: to create a story divorced from its era and enrobe it in more timeless emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2015
No more she smiles for me, no more my rays Urge on her frozen roots to coloured bloom, No clouds enrobe her nakedness--her days, Once golden in the dance, are bent on doom.
From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George
Traditionally, Miss Havisham is presented as a dusty figure enrobed in cobwebby lace.
From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2023
The fruit sandwich is a Japanese treat featuring seasonal gems enrobed in cream and milk bread.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
An image of a stellar nursery in the Carina Nebula about 7,600 light-years away shows massive young stars enrobed in swirling gas and dust.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022
Douglas’ mochi doughnuts are enrobed with real berries; they’re also denser, while retaining that chewy, stretchy texture that mochi fanatics crave.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2021
When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
That mechanical enrobing was key to the Milky Way’s success — it coated the sides of the bar evenly and advanced the industry beyond time-consuming hand-dipped chocolates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Candy centers get made, then go through the enrobing line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
I could imagine the vegetables stirred into and enrobing the meat, and I knew if I couldn’t find lingonberries, I could swap them out for cranberries and be happy with the result.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
What was to stop poor people enrobing their persons with velvets and brocades?
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015
And let me not omit the fact that I reply the instant I am at liberty, for I was enrobing myself for church.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.
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