Other forms: enclosures
An enclosure is any fenced-off piece of land. A stock enclosure, the lion enclosure, a small enclosure.
In British history the Enclosures were the process by which common land was fenced into private fields, which raised output and drove people off the land into the towns. In a letter, an enclosure is whatever is put in with it.
1nounenclosureAny fenced-off piece of land.
“The goats were kept in a small enclosure behind the farmhouse.”
enclosure is a fenced area.
Old French enclore comes from Latin includere, to shut in — in plus claudere, to close.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w- — key, hook, nail
Latin
inclūdō
Old French
enclosure
Middle English
enclosure
English, today
enclosure
Built from
From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)kleh₂w- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA