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
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
So closely doth the ivy not enlace The tree where firmly rooted it doth stand, As clasp each other in their warm embrace These lovers, by each other's sweet breath fanned.
From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred
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)
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
Little showers of white spray enlaced the sombre rocks.
From Nobody's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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
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
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
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
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
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