Noun: clausure
Sample Sentences
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In some monasteries the severity of the clausure is hard to be born. [1715, Michael Geddes, Miscellaneous Tracts, 3rd edition:]
Nouns inflected like clausure
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin clausūra, from Latin clausus. See closure and cloture, which are doublets. See: Latin Nouns '
clausus'.