- plural of cheval-de-frise.
chevaux-de-frise
Americannoun
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Abatis, chevaux-de-frise, and wire entanglements were placed where thought to be advantageous for the defenders.
From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by James Longstreet
The chevaux-de-frise set up across the pathways to knowledge were numerous and most forbidding.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
They spread their quills wide, and run backwards very fast, thus presenting a chevaux-de-frise anything but agreeable.
From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by A. W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson
It was hoped, by the co-operation of these opposite forts and the chevaux-de-frise, to command the Hudson, and prevent the passing and repassing of hostile ships.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
The ramparts consist of strong pickets, sixteen or seventeen feet high, squared, and placed close to each other, and surmounted by a chevaux-de-frise.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
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