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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sudden reddening of the visual field accompanied by severe headache and caused by engorgement of the blood vessels of the head when a person is subjected to a negative force of gravity, as in stunt flying.
from The Century Dictionary.
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redoubt . - In heraldry, bent in many angles: noting a cross with hooked extremities, in the form of the fylfot or swastika.
- noun In fortification, a general name for nearly every class of works wholly inclosed and undefended by reëntering or flanking angles.
- noun Synonyms See
fortification . - noun A simplified and former spelling of
redoubt .
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The small public garden, named for an old redout on the lake shore at the mouth of Bayou St. John was filled with a yellow sunset as Chester and Aline moved after the aunts and the De l'Isles from the train into
The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884
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Vieux-Chateau, conseiller et premier écuyer tranchant de mondit très-redouté seigneur;
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Et par l'ordre et commandement de très-haut, très-puissant et mon très-redouté seigneur, Philippe, par la grace de Dieu, duc de Bourgogne, de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I hope the redout will help the rangers this series.
Lone Star Ball 2009
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à mon très-redouté seigneur monseigneur le duc, qui me l'a ordonné.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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