enclosing

enclosing

1. present participle of enclose

enclosing (plural enclosings)

1. That which encloses.
   • Bible, Exodus 39

     And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. […] And they set in it four rows of stones: […] the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.

2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
   • 1995, Frederick Garber, Repositionings, page 131:

     Duane Duck is a play of boxes, explicit and implicit, frangible or firm; indeed, Duane Duck is a play about boxes, a performance of all manner of relations to enclosings.

• closening, long since