enclore

A literary and legal verb meaning to enclose a piece of land with a wall, fence, or hedge — irregular, conjugated like clore, and largely replaced by clôturer or entourer in everyday speech.

• Le propriétaire a enclos le champ d'une haie épaisse. — The owner enclosed the field with a thick hedge.
• Il faudra enclore ce terrain avant d'y mettre des moutons. — This land will need to be fenced in before sheep can be put there.
• Un vieux mur de pierre enclot le jardin du monastère. — An old stone wall encloses the monastery garden.

Irregular and rare enough that learners often try to conjugate it like a regular -re verb — its forms follow clore (j'enclos, il enclôt, enclos as the past participle), and clôturer is the far more common everyday alternative.

Often confused with clore.