parclose

Etymology

From Middle English parclose, perclose, from Old French parclos, perclose and others, Middle French parclose (“end, enclosure”), noun use of past participle of parclore (“to enclose”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːkləʊz/

Noun

parclose (plural parcloses)

1. A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.
2. (obsolete) An enclosed area, especially one separated from the main body of a building by a screen or partition.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter Tercium, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIV:

     Thenne syr Percyual aspyed that therin was a man or a woman / for the vysage was couerd / thenne he left of his lokyng and herd his seruyse / And whan hit came to the sacrynge / he that lay within that Percloos dressid hym vp and vncouerd his heede / and thenne hym besemed a passynge old man / and he had a crowne of gold vpon his hede

Anagrams

• polacres

Noun

parclose f (oblique plural parcloses, nominative singular parclose, nominative plural parcloses)

1. end; finish