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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification, an outwork with two salient and three reëntering angles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Fort.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A form of redan in fortifications; a swallowtail.

Etymologies

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priest +‎ cap, from its shape.

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