confiner

== English == === Etymology 1 === From confine (verb) +‎ -er. ==== Noun ==== confiner (plural confiners) One who, or that which, limits or restrains. 2016, “Last Chance for Animals’ Investigation Leads to Animal Cruelty Charges for Marineland Canada,” Press Release dated 4 December, 2016,[4] The undercover investigation exposed inadequate treatment, housing, and care of marine mammals at Marineland, the world’s largest confiner of beluga whales. === Etymology 2 === From confine (noun) +‎ -er. ==== Noun ==== confiner (plural confiners) (obsolete) A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour. 1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4,[5] So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need; Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst, And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed: 1697, Thomas d’Urfey, The Intrigues of Versailles, London: F. Saunders et al., Act IV, Scene 2, p. ,[9] […] darkness is naturally a confiner of fancy; and my Muse has taught me just as people do Starlings: I sing always best when I’ve least light […] A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant. A prisoner incarcerated for a set term. 1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64,[10] Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour. == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fi.ne/ Rhymes: -e === Verb === confiner to confine to border (on) ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “confiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012