enscarf

present singular third person enscarfs · participle present enscarfing · participle past enscarfed · past enscarfed

1. To wrap of muffle, as if in a scarf.

   Thy brilliant hopes enscarf'd in sorrow's night.

   1903, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and journals, page 422

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   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!

   1869, Edward Brown, Life Lyrics, page 153

   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.

   1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 52