Meanings (ES + gloss)
angostura • desfiladero • estrecho • paso
A narrow passage or way (originally (military), one which soldiers could only march through in a single file or line), especially a narrow gorge or pass between mountains.
[T]hese granite hills, thousands of feet high, were impracticable for heavy troops: the passes through them being formidable defiles, very costly to assault or cover.
[…] I roam / By Thrasimene's lake, in the defiles / Fatal to Roman rashness, more at home; […]
desfile • fila india
A single file of soldiers; (by extension) any single file.
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