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† ˈenterclose, ˈinterclose Obs.
[a. OF. entreclos, f. entre between + clos: see close n.]
1. A partition, ‘septum’.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxxi. (1495) 653 In the fruyte of Mirtus ben thre celles and in euery celle thre greynes or foure joyned wythout interclose [sine pariete.] Ibid., Some greyne is dowble wythoute interclose [Lat. absque pariete] as in Celidoyne, and some is double wyth interclose as the greyne of Narstucium.
2. Arch. ? A screen, partition. Also attrib.
c1450Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 590 Interclausum, an enterclos. 1479Will Wulwurth (Somerset Ho.), Lego ad facturam le enterclose beate Marie ecclesie. 1485in Finchale Priory Acc. (1837) 370 Lez enterclose walles tenementorum in Ballio. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 308 Ouer against which place, vpon the enterclose of the Quier I find written, etc. 1851–3Turner Dom. Archit. II. v. 216 [tr. Liberate Roll of 1248] An interclose with door and locks at the entrance of the queen's new chamber.
b. ? A space partitioned off.
The architectural dicts. give the definition ‘a passage between two rooms’, referring to the following example:
1478Wyrcestre Itin. (1778) 288 Le enterclose per quam vadit a porta ad aulam [in Wookey cavern] est longitudinis dimidium furlong, et archuata, etc. |