inclosure

English

Noun

inclosure (countable and uncountable, plural inclosures)

  1. (now uncommon) Alternative spelling of enclosure
    • 1821, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XIV, in The Spy‎, H M Caldwell, →OCLC, page 156:
      The graveyard was an inclosure on the grounds of Mr. Wharton, which had been fenced with stone, and set apart for the purpose, by that gentleman, some years before. It was not, however, intended as a burial-place for any of his own family.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The People that Time Forgot‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      The only opening into the inclosure was through a small aperture.

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