chevaux-de-frise

[shuh-voh-duh-freez]

noun

1. plural of cheval-de-frise.

Example Sentences

Then he made a rough circular wall around the camp enclosure, using rails and sleepers and a number of trucks, defending the whole circuit with a chevaux-de-frise made of branches lopped from the neighbouring woods.

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Though armed with formidable chevaux-de-frise, these species are stingless, and the caterpillars may be safely gathered.

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Arrived here, the fugitives must ascend the counterscarp, and cross the chevaux-de-frise with which it was furnished.

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With the facility of politicians they can hide behind phrases, make barricades of statistics, and chevaux-de-frise of inferences and assertions.

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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.

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