clôture

Noun

 * 1) * 1894, Goldwin Smith quoted in The Review of Reviews; Volume IX, page #600:
 * A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.
 * A House of Commons manifestly demoralized, unable to dispatch the business, docked of freedom of debate by the clôture, in bondage at once to the caucus and to Irish disaffection, is proclaimed the sole organ of the national will, the supreme and only power of the State.

Etymology
(see also ), from, from.

Noun

 * 1) fence; hedge, wall
 * 2) closing, closure (of a business, shop, argument etc.)