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clos

B2#5,675

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adjective
  1. closed, shut
  2. shut in, enclosed
nounmasculine
  1. a piece of cultivated land surrounded by walls or hedges, especially a small vineyard
  2. field, cultivated farm field

Used in the library

  • Télesphore et Alma-Rose étaient couchés, Tit'Bé fumait une dernière pipe avant la prière en commun, quand Chien jappa plusieurs fois et vint flairer la porte close.Telesphorus and Alma-Rose were lying down, Tit'Bé smoked a last pipe before prayer in common, when Dog smeared several times and came smearing the door closed.B1Maria Chapdelaine
  • Il faisait nuit close, et personne ne les vit sortir.It was night closed, and no one saw them coming out.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
  • Jugé à huis clos, il est condamné à la déportation perpétuelle et dégradé dans la cour de l'École militaire.Tried behind closed doors, he is sentenced to deportation for life and stripped of his rank in the courtyard of the École militaire.B2L'affaire Dreyfus — The Dreyfus affair
  • Mornac se lança à sa poursuite, mais le spadassin disparut presque aussitôt près de la clôture qui entourait le clos Couillard et passait derrière la cathédrale en gagnant l'Hôtel-Dieu.Mornac went after him, but the spadassin disappeared almost immediately near the fence that surrounded the Couillard fence and passed behind the cathedral by winning the Hôtel-Dieu.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac

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