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nestle

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English nestlian "build a nest," from nest (see nest (n.)). Figurative sense of "settle (oneself) comfortably, snuggle" is first recorded 1540s. Related: Nestled ; nestling .

Usage examples of nestle.

Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.

Whereupon both the Amoretti nestled and clung round Iamblichus as if they had been his own children .

A chicken leg, a meat pasty, half of a baguette, a large chunk of ripe cheese, and a strawberry tart nestled in the checkered napkin beside a bottle of lemonade.

Scrambling into the back seat, she scooted over to the far side and helped Bender lay Jace inside, his head nestled in her lap.

It was nestled in the green foothills of the Carag Huim, the Mountains of the Moon, that bounded Elyria on the west.

Kinzer homestead, with its snug parlor and its cosey bits of rooms and chambers, seemed to nestle away, under the shadowy elms and sycamores, smaller and smaller with every year that came.

Drew took the locket and studied the yellowing daguerreotype nestled within.

Nestled in a nutlike shell no larger than a human fist, the organ was a tangle of axons and dendrons webbing together a gelatinous muddle of neuron clusters.

When at last the face was raised I recognized the dhobi of the village that nestled under the hill on which was perched the castle of the zemindar.

The soft swell of girlish breasts, between which nestled the exotic jade brooch, moved him so that he felt his groin swell and engorge pleasantly.

It stood some distance away from the larger estancia, nestled in a tiny clearing in the trees where one would not expect any house to be.

Deep within it, nestled in the folds of her spare skirts, was the little leather pouch and its contents that Silas Fennec had given her, along with the letter she was writing.

The wide folded kerchief that held back her long golden hair was brocaded red silk, and a thumb-thick circlet of gold and firedrops nestled over it.

Then he knocked on the partition again, and my frump was soon nestled back in its leather bed, safe and sound.

Like Gann, he struggled to fold his long limbs into a comfortable position, pressing one knee into the seat in front of him while angling his other leg toward Zarra, who appeared quite content, nestled between his two larger companions.