Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, a small flat bastion raised in front of an intended fortification, to defend it from attacks by means of small-arms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
flat bastion , raised in the middle of anoverlong curtain .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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Ah pis j'ai piké deux mini frites a mon papa * Moineau moineau moineau *
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Retiendrait un chanteur, pinson, merle ou moineau;
Rêves ambitieux 1920
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Two seven-letter examples besides sequoia, are moineau and miaoued.
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Wiesbaden: 1957; Les confessions d’un moineau du siècle.
Claire Goll. 2009
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Fiction also earned her some public recognition, including the 1952 South-German Radio Prize for best short story (for Chinesische Wäscherei [Chinese Laundry], shared with Heinrich Böll), and the 1965 Katherine Mansfield Prize for Les Confessions d’un moineau du siècle (Confessions of One of this Century’s Sparrows).
Claire Goll. 2009
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