enceinte

Definitions

1. An enclosure.
2. The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress.
3. The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification.

Equivalents

Examples

“These labours upon Phœnician necropoli are of great importance. [...] M. [Louis Félicien] de Saulcy, one of the first travellers who has thrown light⟳ upon these necropoli, devoted himself to a very interesting examination of the tombs of the kings, of the prophets and judges, and upon the immense necropolis that surrounds Jerusalem, like⟳ a funeral enceinte.”

“And so across the bridge and into the enceinte of the massive walls, threading their way towards the quarter where the morgue lay⟳.”

“S. W. Williams The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte.”

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