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cloison (n.)
"a partition, a dividing band," 1690s, from French
cloison
, from Vulgar Latin
*clausionem
(nominative
*clausio
), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin
claudere
"to close, shut" (see
clause
). Related:
Cloisonnage
.