encrisped
English
Etymology
Adjective
encrisped (not comparable)
- (obsolete) curled or encrusted
- 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 320, lines 288–290:
- Of laurell levis a cronell on his hede,
With heris encrisped yalowe as the golde,
Lamentyng Daphnes, […]
- 1857, T Irwin, Goethe’s Death:
- Where the lank boar is seen to yawn / His hungered fangs encrisped with gore.
References
- “encrisped”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.