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
A very large sperm whale was locked in deadly conflict with a cuttle-fish or squid, almost as large as himself, whose interminable tentacles seemed to enlace the whole of his great body.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
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 L. (Launcelot) Cranmer-Byng
And thou, Yma Sumac, come to me, I enlace you in the thread of love; Thou art the pure essence of Coyllur.
From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
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 had, further, enlaced the contemporary rulers in the various countries of the West in ties of relationship with himself.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Trophies of blunderbusses, matchlocks, arquebuses, carbines, all sorts of ancient or modern firearms, were picturesquely enlaced against the walls.
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
Many turned to look at the two friends, as enlaced they wandered across the 'gravel' on their way to change out of flannels, Michael nut-brown and Alan rose-bloomed like a peach.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
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
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Storm, wind, and rain had vanished like the flying phantoms of an evil dream, and all the beautiful land sparkled with light and life in its enlacing girdle of turquoise blue sea.
From Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
There is no end and no release; it is our destiny to live; the darkness is all about us, but we are the light, enlacing it with struggling beams, piercing it with fiery spears.
From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
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