Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., a small turret or box of wood or of masonry at the salient angles of works, on the top of the revetment, at the door of a public building, etc., to shelter a sentry; a sentry-box.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
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- noun A projecting
turret for asentry , as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles ofbastions .
Etymologies
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French guérite.
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Examples
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As she found her woman's attire too expensive, little suited for facing mud and rain, and in other respects inconvenient, she provided herself with a coat (redingote-guerite), trousers, and waistcoat of coarse grey cloth, a hat of the same colour, a large necktie, and boots with little iron heels.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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