📚 noun • entry_id 37120
circumvallation
/sɜːkəmvæˈleɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
circunvalación
A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended.
The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.
[...] and in a word, would intrench and fortify them round with as many circumvallations and breast-works, as my uncle Toby would a citadel.
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