clôture

clôture englanniksi

1. cloture

1. (alternative spelling of)

2. 1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in ''The Review of Reviews''; Volume IX, page 600:

A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.

3. fence; hedge, wall

4. closing, closure (of a business, shop, argument etc.)

5. (inflection of)