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mare clausum
[ mair-ee klaw-suhm, mahr-ey; Latin mah-re klou-soom ]
/ ˈmɛər i ˈklɔ səm, ˈmɑr eɪ; Latin ˈmɑ rɛ ˈklaʊ sʊm /
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noun
a body of navigable water under the sole jurisdiction of a nation.
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Origin of mare clausum
1645–55; <Latin: closed sea
Words nearby mare clausum
Mare Acidalium,
Mare Australe,
Mare Boreum,
Mare Chronium,
Mare Cimmerium,
mare clausum,
Mare Crisium,
Mare Erythraeum,
Mare Fecunditatis,
Mare Frigoris,
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How to use mare clausum in a sentence
Captain Giuseppe Maggio described the nightmare situations the Mare Nostrum ships encounter.
Next came Dolly, after a big sorrel mare; and Paul, after a freckled pinto; and so on down the line.
Since Mare Nostrum, more than 60 traffickers have been arrested when their boats were intercepted or rescued at sea.
But if Mare Nostrum ends, it could be a tragic day for migrants making the perilous crossing.
The proposed Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), for example, would place a boat on either Ligeia Mare or Kraken Mare.
Bill Barry's statement that the cru-colored bovine was "lively" and could outrun his sorrel mare was, at least founded upon fact.
The assassin gallops away upon his mare, and seeks by night to cross the Rhone.
A handsome soldier on a restive bay mare came next, and behind him a huge touring car with a pompous black chauffeur.
Coming around the bluff from the opposite direction was a countryman mounted on a powerful gray mare.
Kitty, the grey one-eyed mare, came and rubbed her nose against the black horse.
British Dictionary definitions for mare clausum
noun
law a sea coming under the jurisdiction of one nation and closed to all othersCompare mare liberum Word Origin for mare clausum
Latin: closed sea
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