cloison

From French cloison.

cloison (plural cloisons)

1. A partition, dividing fillet or band.

• Consoli, scolion, solonic

Inherited from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *clausiōnem, from Latin clausus.

• IPA^(key): /klwa.zɔ̃/

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cloison f (plural cloisons)

1. partition, partition wall
2. (anatomy, botany) septum, partition
3. (nautical) bulkhead

• cloisonner (“to partition, compartmentalize”)

• clore
• clos

• “cloison”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.