enlace
Americanverb (used with object)
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to interlace; intertwine.
to enlace strands of rope.
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to bind or encircle with or as with a lace or cord.
Vines enlaced the tree.
verb
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to bind or encircle with or as with laces
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to entangle; intertwine
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of enlace
1325–75; Middle English enlacen < Old French enlacier. See en- 1, lace
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Among the many tattoos that enlace her limbs is one of the Bataclan, on her left forearm.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Three minutes into the conversation with the Matamoros editor, the senior editor began raising his voice about the enlace.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2015
I sail Between two banks, where heavy boughs enlace, Whose verdurous luxuriance wakes once more My many griefs.
From A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China by Cranmer-Byng, L. (Launcelot)
"Alas!" quoth she, "My painful fingers I will here enlace Till I have gain'd your pity for our race."
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
Pass your hands beneath him, enlace your fingers, and when I give the word, all lift.”
From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville
They came from a world enlaced with traditional forms, in which the idea of an avant-garde was barely conceivable and the notion of radical renewal seemed like cultural parricide.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this moment, as if to confirm Sir Grummore’s opinion, a pair of enlaced figures sauntered along the diff road.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
He enlaced her fingers in his, and for the first time, in a low voice, he called her Hyacinthe.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
The great trees enlaced with one another over my head, and the sunshine stole through in patches as bright as diamonds, and hardly bigger.
From The Prisoner of Zenda by Hope, Anthony
Amaldi could see the beauty of Sophy and Loring in each other's arms as plainly as though they had stood enlaced before him.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
The subject of both literary arts, for Maxwell, is the enlacing of human passions in the web of relationships, rules, habits and prejudices that make up what is called society.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
It was one of those moments when the accumulated impressions of life converge on heart and brain, elucidating, enlacing each other, in a mysterious confusion of beauty.
From The Custom of the Country by Wharton, Edith
But Winsome moved away from him, walking down towards the mouth of the linn, through the thickly wooded glen, and underneath the overarching trees, with their enlacing lattice-work of curving boughs.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Through the enlacing fingers of the trees the western sun made ladders of light.
From Diana Tempest, Volume II (of 3) by Cholmondeley, Mary
For she walks—She our Lady, our Mistress of Wedlock,—the woodlands atween, And the bride-bed she weaves them, with myrtle enlacing, with curtains of green.
From Brother Copas by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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