enclosing
Verb
  1. present participle of enclose#English|enclose
Noun

enclosing (plural enclosings)

  1. That which encloses.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Exodus 39:10-13 ↗:
      And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
  2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.



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