An archaic term for closure, enclosure, or the act of closing; sometimes used in heraldry and medieval legal contexts.
From Latin clausura, related to claudere (to close). Emerged in Old French and Middle English, particularly in legal and heraldic terminology.
This word almost disappeared from English, lingering only in heraldic and legal documents—a ghost word that scholars have to excavate from medieval charters to understand property disputes.
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