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glacis
[ gley-sis, glas-is ]
noun
- a gentle slope.
- Fortification. a bank of earth in front of the counterscarp or covered way of a fort, having an easy slope toward the field or open country.
glacis
/ ˈɡleɪ-; ˈɡlæsɪs; ˈɡlæsɪ /
noun
- a slight incline; slope
- an open slope in front of a fortified place
- See glacis plateshort for glacis plate
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Origin of glacis1
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Example Sentences
In six days they completed the parapet, with a glacis on the opposite side.
The opposing lines of trenches go down the slope, much as usual, with the enemy line above on a slight natural glacis.
It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.
It is defended by a castle with ditches glacis, and by a double wall, which in some parts is triple.
Hamos (Hems) is a good town, well inclosed with walls and ditches "en glacis," situated in a plain on the banks of a small river.
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