ensconced

adj

1. (not-comparable)Placed in a secure environment.

   “Even if you are ensconced in a pandemic pod with a romantic partner or family members, you can still feel lonely — often camouflaged as sadness, irritability, anger and lethargy — because you’re not getting the full range of human interactions that you need, almost like not eating a balanced diet.”

2. (not-comparable)Settled comfortably.

   “Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.”

   “Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of ensconce