clôture
See also: cloture, closture, and clôturé
English
Noun
clôture (plural clôtures)
- Alternative spelling of cloture
- 1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in The Review of Reviews; Volume IX, page #600:
- A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.
- 1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in The Review of Reviews; Volume IX, page #600:
Anagrams
- Coulter, clouter, coulter, lectour
French
Etymology
From Old French closture (see also closure), from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klo.tyʁ/
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Noun
clôture f (plural clôtures)
- fence; hedge, wall
- closing, closure (of a business, shop, argument etc.)
Verb
clôture
- inflection of clôturer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular present imperative
Derived terms
- clôturer
Related terms
- clore
- clos
Further reading
- “clôture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- clouter