ensconce

On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.

His wife, Patty, was ensconced in a coordinating suit, hers brown, his green.

But in some ways, Maduro is more safely ensconced than ever, with most opposition leaders in exile and Venezuelans too fearful to protest as they once did.

Most supporters are firmly ensconced in the world of white evangelicalism, which is famously alienating to most everyone outside it.

But through the legal process he spent as little time at court as possible, ensconced instead in the safety and privacy of his home.