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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ensconce /ɪnˈskɒns, ɛn-/

▶verb (often be ensconced in) establish in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.

– origin C16 (in the senses ‘fortify’ and ‘shelter within or behind a fortification’): from en-1, in-2 + sconce2.

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