Brewer's: Ensconce

(2 syl.). To hide; to put under cover. Literally, to cover with a sconce, or fort. (German, schanze, a fort; Danish, schans; Swedish, skans; Latin, abscondo, to hide.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Ensemble
Enough
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