enrobe
Americanverb (used with object)
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Toss it with fresh lobster chunks, enrobe cutlets with hollandaise and bread crumbs before frying, or make the most luscious broiled oysters you've ever had.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
Inside, we were all given a tray of round chocolate shells, which we learned to fill with ganache, seal with meticulously tempered milk or dark chocolate, and gently enrobe in powdered sugar.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
For years the Warner Bros. film studio was run by Alan Horn, known as a deft glad-hander of agents, actors, directors and the sensitive skin that can enrobe them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2020
Hornby said he had just that desire: to create a story divorced from its era and enrobe it in more timeless emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2015
With light thou dost thy self enrobe, And glory for a garment take; Heav'n's curtain stretch'd beyond the globe, The canopy of state to make.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV by Cibber, Theophilus
President Biden’s trip to Asia for the G20 summit fit well within a defining narrative of his presidency: a record of accomplishment, enrobed in bafflement at the man himself.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2023
The fruit sandwich is a Japanese treat featuring seasonal gems enrobed in cream and milk bread.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
An image of a stellar nursery in the Carina Nebula about 7,600 light-years away shows massive young stars enrobed in swirling gas and dust.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 21, 2022
Broiled under a hot flame and enrobed in perfectly bronzed cheese?
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2022
When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
That mechanical enrobing was key to the Milky Way’s success — it coated the sides of the bar evenly and advanced the industry beyond time-consuming hand-dipped chocolates.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
Candy centers get made, then go through the enrobing line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2021
I could imagine the vegetables stirred into and enrobing the meat, and I knew if I couldn’t find lingonberries, I could swap them out for cranberries and be happy with the result.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
What was to stop poor people enrobing their persons with velvets and brocades?
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015
Mr. Mumbles arose from his bed at earliest dawn, and, having breakfasted, set to enrobing himself as a grand grandee of the first order.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.
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