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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.
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French closture (see also closure), from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus.
Pronunciation
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
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