1º_ Feminine of even ( "included" ) . 2º_ Formerly, "lock of a maritime channel or a dam" . . . when closed. From the Latin in clusus , a , um ( "closed with lock") . 3º_ By the previous , old name that was given to the current Dutch coastal town of Sluys, today known in Spanish as Lock. 4º_ In Spain it is a name for the Casa de Expósitos, the orphanage where orphaned children are raised. The origin is in the House of Foundlings of Madrid, where there was since the sixteenth century an image of Our Lady of the Inclusa as protector, which was taken to Spain from the same town of the previous meaning.