enscarf
English
Verb
enscarf (third-person singular simple present enscarfs, present participle enscarfing, simple past and past participle enscarfed)
- To wrap of muffle, as if in a scarf.
- 1869, Edward Brown, Life Lyrics, page 153:
- and a fairy grace Enscarfs her, as a cloud the young May moon,— And melody hath joined with golden clasps, Her thoughts to sweetest words!
- 1903, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and journals, page 422:
- Thy brilliant hopes enscarf'd in sorrow's night.
- 1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 52:
- I have never possessed one of the more pictorial neckties favoured by the barrow-boy who has also ambitions to be a buck, bean, or blade. But, if I did enscarf myself so, I should be happy to be called fantoosh.
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