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Enclave   Listen
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Enclave  v. t.  To inclose within an alien territory. (Recent)






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"Enclave" Quotes from Famous Books



... cash, the Grimaldi of the period fell under the wiles of an ingenious Alsatian gambler, Guerlac by name, who foresaw that Baden-Baden and Hombourg were approaching their finish and that the sports must look elsewhere for their living, the idle rich for their sport. This tiny "enclave" in French territory presented many advantages over the German Dukedoms. It was an independent sovereignty issuing its own coins and postage stamps. It was in proud possession of a half-dozen policemen which it called its "army." It was paradisaic in ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson

... them. (See map). Kowfat, lying as the reader knows, on the Kowfat River, occupies the hinterland between the back end of south-west Somaliland and the east, that is to say, the west, bank of Lake P'schu. It thus forms an enclave between the Dog Men of Darfur and the Negritos of T'chk. The inhabitants of Kowfat are a coloured race three quarters negroid and ...
— My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock



Words linked to "Enclave" :   district, territorial dominion, territory



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