clos
1 Americannoun
abbreviation
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of clos
Literally, “closed”
Example Sentences
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They built a stone wall around it, creating a clos, or enclosed vineyard, using rock from a nearby quarry.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022
But as this growing army of lawyers went about defending movement activists, they saw the workings of vagrancy laws up clos, and even in some instances experienced their power firsthand.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2016
According to a widely told anecdote, Romanov ordered Leningrad's Hermitage museum to open its china clos ets so that guests at his daughter's wedding reception could eat in grand style.
From Time Magazine Archive
By a unanimous vote, the Bundesrat, the upper house of the West German Parliament, last week passed a law clos ing the legal loophole through which as-yet-undetected German war criminals would have escaped punishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was the lit d'alcove, the lit de bout, lit clos, lit de glace, with a mirror framed in the ceiling, and many others.
From Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today by Throop, Lucy Abbot
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