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Definition of Eclose
1. to emerge from a pupal case [v ECLOSED, ECLOSING, ECLOSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclose
Literary usage of Eclose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels on the Continent: Written for the Use and Particular Information of by Mariana Starke (1820)
"... If Bourgoin 1% eclose 2 ... Between eclose and La Frete, a third horse during
the six winter ..."
2. Travels in Europe ...: And ... in the Island of Sicily ... To which is Added by Mariana Starke (1836)
"2 Vizille—It is much to be lamented that there are are no relays of post-horses
on the direct line Ditto, from Bourgoin to eclose; but not returning. ..."
3. Letters by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Thomas James Wise, Edmund Gosse (1919)
"In the penultimate line I am not sure which of these two readings is preferable— 'Fleur
eclose au sommet du siecle' 'Fleur rouge eclose au sien du siecle' ..."
4. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1919)
"In the penultimate line I am not sure which of these two readings is preferable— 'Fleur
eclose au sommet du siecle' 'Fleur rouge eclose au sien du siecle' ..."
5. A Tour Round My Garden by Alphonse Karr (1855)
"They who write in verse are only acquainted with la rose, « demi eclose (the ...
An innovator, about four hundred years ago, ventured upon fraiche eclose ..."
6. A complete treatise on French grammar by O. C. Angoville (1858)
"... m. eclose, f. to hatch or to blow, (none.) " hatched or blown. ISO. ...
Qu'il ou qu'elle eclose, that it may blow or she may hatch. Pres. ..."
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