mare clausum

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   (closed sea) a navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a single nation

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Questions about mare clausum

What does mare clausum mean?

mare clausum means "(closed sea) a navigable body of water under the jurisdiction of a single nation".

Is mare clausum a common word?

mare clausum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.