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enchase

[en-chays] / ɛnˈtʃeɪs /


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She may turn out to be a pearl of a wife, this young lady whom you are requested to enchase in gold.

From Major Frank by James Akeroyd

There was for the second, a little Cupid set with brilliants, and besides these a set of fine china for the tea-table, enchased in gold, japan trunks, fans, and many gallantries of the same nature.

From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

There was for the second, a little Cupid set with brilliants; and besides these, a set of fine china for a tea-table enchased in gold, japan trunks, fans, and many gallantries of the same nature.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg

At last he, with a low courtesy, put on her medical finger a pretty handsome golden ring, whereinto was right artificially enchased a precious toadstone of Beausse.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux

This ring of mine would lose half its beauty were not the signet encircled and enchased with these lesser brilliants, which grace it and set it off.

From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott

St. James' Town, an inconsiderable village, was before him, enchased, as it were in a valley, amid arid and scarped rocks of immense height; every platform, every opening, every gorge, was bristled with cannon.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 263, Supplementary Number (1827) by Various

After dismounting it—an operation that the quite primitive enchasing of the face plate renders very easy—we took a copy of it, which we measured with care.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 by Various

Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster


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