OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 40326

glacis

/ˈɡleɪsɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
glacis
A gentle incline.
[T]heir hearts had failed them at the silence and the blaze of lighted ships from end to end of the harbour, with eerie beams of the searchlights revealing the bleakness of the gla…
[T]ook his place with solemn / Air 'midst the rest, who kept their valiant faces / And levelled weapons still against the glacis.
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