[ɛnˈskɒns], (Verb)

Definitions:
- establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe place
(e.g: Agnes ensconced herself in their bedroom)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in the senses ‘fortify’ and ‘shelter within or behind a fortification’; formerly also as insconce): from en-, in- ‘in’ + sconce