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单词 enclave
释义
enclaveen‧clave /ˈenkleɪv, ˈeŋ-/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINenclave
Origin:
1800-1900 French, Old French enclaver ‘to enclose’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Nagorno-Karabakh is a mainly Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • All eyes followed the Collector as he strode about the enclave grimacing and muttering to himself.
  • It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
  • One of these was a dreadful modern slum in Liverpool - an enclave of vandalised flats surrounded by wastelands.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Within them was the small papal enclave of Benevento.· Near Belturbet, we reached the Border once more, and drove into a small enclave.
a small area that is within a larger area where people of a different kind or nationality live:  the former Portuguese enclave of East Timor
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