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- noun Plural form of
fougasse .
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Examples
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We put up chevaux de frises and made fougasses a kind of primitive land mine.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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We put up chevaux de frises and made fougasses a kind of primitive land mine.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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We put up chevaux de frises and made fougasses a kind of primitive land mine.
MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003
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More than this, fires still kept breaking out around; while mines and fougasses not unfrequently exploded from unknown causes.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole
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There were old muskets, charged to bursting point with slugs and nails, which were fired by similar devices, while on three occasions fougasses, or land-mines, were exploded, fortunately without causing casualties.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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"The explosion of those fougasses has knocked on the head our chances of delivering a surprise attack," remarked the company commander to
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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"By Jove, that was a narrow one!" he soliloquised as a bullet -- one of many shot at a venture -- whizzed dangerously close to his ears and knocked up a number of small fougasses as it ricochetted in the embers.
Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917
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More than this, fires still kept breaking out around; while mines and fougasses not unfrequently exploded from unknown causes.
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