verb/e.klɔʁ/
to hatch (for an egg); to bloom (for a flower); to hatch (to start, to begin existence)
“Pour vous obliger de penser à moi, D'y penser souvent, d'y penser encore, Voici quelques fleurs, bien modeste envoi, De très humbles fleurs qui viennent d'éclore.” — To help you to think of me, To think of me often, to think of me once more, Here are some flowers, a real modest gift, Some very humble flowers that have just begun to bloom.
Inherited from Old French esclore, from Vulgar Latin *exclaudere, remodelled from Latin exclūdere. Doublet of the borrowing exclure. Compare Piedmontese s-ciòde.