Enclave

enclave







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[en-kleyv, ahn-]



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–noun 

1. a country, or esp., an outlying portion of a country, entirely or mostly surrounded 

by 

the territory of another country.  



2. any small, distinct area or group enclosed or isolated within a larger one: 



a [Chinese]-speaking enclave in [London].  



–verb (used with object) 

3. to isolate or enclose (esp. territory) within a foreign or uncongenial (不情投意合) environment; make an enclave of: The desert enclaved the little settlement.





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Pronounce it either EN-KLAIV or AHN-KLAIV. It means "a group or political entity surrounded by a larger country or another entity": [Little Norway] is an enclave in southern [Brooklyn]. 





　

Kenneth Branagh's attractive, intelligent reading of Shakespeare's As You Like It deserves a look. He transplants the action to 



an imagined self-governing enclave 

of 

19th-century [British merchants]  



in Japan. Brian Blessed doubles as both the wicked Duke Frederick and his virtuous brother, Duke Senior: driven from power in a palace coup to seek exile in the forest. 





colossal 

mogul magnate czar tycoon

regent prexy



despot vassal

villein

a serf in [feudalism]

paean 

is [at] some level a [paean] of [praise] [to] the fortitude and moral courage that 

[paeon] a prosodic foot in verse - ---

[peon] social have-nots

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