encrisped

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ crisp +‎ -ed.

Adjective

encrisped (not comparable)

  1. (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.

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