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A close is an alleyway off which one or more doors to residential tenements open. Alternative names are entry, court, and wynd, with some nuances: a court is mo
by dghf 9y ago
A close is an alleyway off which one or more doors to residential tenements open. Alternative names are entry, court, and wynd, with some nuances: a court is more likely to open up into a courtyard, and a wynd more likely to be a means of getting from A to B, rather than just somewhere people live.
- arethuza 9y agoJust though of another one: "vennel" - which I thought was just The Vennel in Edinburgh but which actually seems to just be an example of a vennel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vennel