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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
defilade .
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Examples
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Terrain irregularities (such as defilades or mounds) provide initial fortifications.
FM 44-48 Appendix G - Sensor Employment United States Army 1993
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Rocks lay everywhere, and each hill revealed a new landscape of secret inclines and defilades, and it was all brown-gray, coated with dust or grit.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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Rocks lay everywhere, and each hill revealed a new landscape of secret inclines and defilades, and it was all brown-gray, coated with dust or grit.
Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010
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Presumably some feature of the ground defilades one part, for the enemy cannot see into the valley, although, were they only
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900
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