Meanings (ES + gloss)
flanqueador
A fortification or soldier projecting so as to defend another work or to command the flank of an assailing body.
1675, The Captivity of Mary Rowlandson, from The Portable Native American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 312, About two hours...they had been about the house be…
[The planters’ houses] were frequently constructed with flankers and loopholes, for the purpose of firing upon the assailants when they approached so near.
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