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secluse en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /sɪˈkluːs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēclūsus. Compare with Spanish secluso (now obsolete).

Meanings

1. (archaic) Secluded.
   • […] or by removing the thing (if it be a materiall thing, as this was) out of the placęs of reſort, into ſome ſecluſe place, vvhere the people might neither come at it, nor ſee it, and where without offence it might ſtill be kept for a monument of Gods mercy: […] 1605, Leonard Hutten, An Ansvvere to a Certaine Treatise of the Crosse in Baptisme, Oxford: […] Ioſeph Barnes, page 67:
   • Was it not you, Henry, who in The guise of a hermit thrush once Led me down a deer path To your secluse and secret springs On the lap of Fair Haven Hill? 2010, J. Walter Brain, “Epigaea Springs”, in Laura Dassow Walls, editor, The Concord Saunterer, volume 18, The Thoreau Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 96:

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