Pronounced: OH-lee-oh, noun
Notes: I have no memory of this word
Yesterday’s word
The word enclave is “a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory”.
First usage
Our word came into English in the middle 1800s
Background / Comments
The day after I wrote the entry for our word, I ran across it in the news of the day. It comes from the French noun enclave, which comes from the Middle French verb enclaver (enclose), which comes from the Latin prefix in- and the Latin noun clavis (key).
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