A shutting up; a closing.--Pickering.
Very soon after the closure of imports, I did submit to the consideration of the Senate a proposition.--J. Q. Adams, 1808.
Mr. Pickering observes that he has never seen this word, except in the extract quoted, in any American publication. Dr. Johnson gives the word in the same sense from the French closure, and cites several authorities for its use.
And must so break with men on such occasions, as to leave room and to prepare the way for a closure.--Atterbury, Sermons, IV. 330.