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Definition of conclave:

(n) : the set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope; the group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals
"it was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. — South?"
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Definition of conclave:

(n) : the set of apartments within which the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are continuously secluded while engaged in choosing a pope; the group of Roman Catholic cardinals locked in a conclave until they elect a new pope; the body of cardinals
"it was said a cardinal, by reason of his apparent likelihood to step into St. Peter's chair, that in two conclaves he went in pope and came out again cardinal. — South?"
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