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
Example Sentences
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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
Suddenly the detested plants had disappeared and two arms sought to enlace him.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
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 seized her gently by the waist and kissed her, holding her thus enlaced until they were at the door.
From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene
Now enlaced, with wreathèd smiles, All together dance and play.—
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
The boys got into the open air and scented the surf with delight, a moon enlaced with delicate cloud streamers made magic in the sky; then Harry growled: "Say, Bill, do you believe that story?"
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
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
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 Corelli, Marie
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
So they stand with their limbs enlacing, Nymph and mortal, upon this shore, He forever a vine embracing Her a silvery sycamore.
From A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
The sense of desperate tendrils enlacing him was almost suffocating, and each tendril craved for recognition; a lapse, a look, an inattention was the cutting of something that bled, and clung the closer.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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