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- It was tightly closed, but I opened it, to find to my puzzlement and covetousness two polished buffalo nickels, embedded in white cotton.†
*embedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- In the primary department of Sunday school, we little girls rose up in taffeta dresses and hot white gloves, with a nickel for collection embedded inside our palms, and while elastic bands from our Madge Evans hats sawed us under the chin, we sang songs led and exhorted by Miss Hattie.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(embedded) firmly within; or placed withinin various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into -- as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within -- as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part -- sometimes specifically of a reporter
- integrated in hardware -- as of a computer chip
- firmly set within -- as of a character trait
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)