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enlace

American  
[en-leys] / ɛnˈleɪs /

verb (used with object)

enlaced, enlacing
  1. to interlace; intertwine.

    to enlace strands of rope.

  2. to bind or encircle with or as with a lace or cord.

    Vines enlaced the tree.


enlace British  
/ ɪnˈleɪs /

verb

  1. to bind or encircle with or as with laces

  2. to entangle; intertwine

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

Do you, within your little hour of Grace, The waving Cypress in your Arms enlace, Before the Mother back into her arms Fold, and dissolve you in a last embrace.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar

Marion, for her possession of him who should have been her husband; Philip, for her ceaseless efforts to enlace herself round his heart.

From The Sapphire Cross 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

They fell into the water enlaced, forming a single heavy mass, and disappeared under the splashing foam.

From Twenty-six and One and Other Stories by Gorky, Maksim

The phantoms three enlaced The trembling baron round; He vainly shrieked,—the walls With demon laughs resound; The echoing thunders rolled Along the valley deep; Lightnings, when pale dawn broke, Blasted the castle keep.

From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

"Be strong!" whispered the girl, pressing the hand of her brother which was enlaced in hers.

From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór

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

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 Benson, Arthur Christopher

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)

Fixing her hinder claws in the meshes of the wire gauze the mother drags her burden towards her; then, enlacing it with her legs, she holds it suspended.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard

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

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