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Definition of "sconced" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of sconce. (verb)

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Use "sconced" in a sentence
  • "I added that, when I first went up to Oxford, a frock-coat and tall hat were imperative in walking out; that a "cut-away" coat, as it was called, would have been "sconced" in Hall; that men even kept their boating-dresses at King's or Hall's, changing there; that a blazer in the High would have drawn a crowd."
  • "In the pamphlet it is "sconced"; that very common old word for fined or mulcted."
  • "In the old days a young chef with ambitions to write their own menu would have raised £1.5m to launch something gilded and marbled and sconced."
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