cloison
English
Etymology
Noun
cloison (plural cloisons)
Derived terms
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *clausiōnem, from Latin clausus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klwa.zɔ̃/
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Noun
cloison f (plural cloisons)
- partition, partition wall
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Elle décachetait ses lettres, épiait ses démarches, et l'écoutait, à travers la cloison, donner ses consultations dans son cabinet, quand il y avait des femmes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (anatomy, botany) septum, partition
- (nautical) bulkhead
Derived terms
- cloisonner (“to partition, compartmentalize”)
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Further reading
- “cloison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012