débouché
Americannoun
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Fortification. a passage or opening through which troops may debouch.
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an outlet; an exit.
Etymology
Origin of débouché
1750–60; < French, noun use of past participle of déboucher to debouch
Example Sentences
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Hindoos of research may formerly have been here; and if so, one cannot think of any place to which they might more aptly give the name of a cow's mouth than to this extraordinary débouché.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 by Rossiter Johnson
They desired an export trade—a débouché for their Namur cutlery and Verviers’ frieze.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever
The débouché of the defiles, with good lateral communications between them, is the proper line of defence for India, not the entry into those defiles, which cannot have secure lateral communications.
From The Life of Gordon, Volume II by Demetrius Charles Boulger
We must subdivide our batteries whenever we wish to obtain cross-fires on a débouché, or on the head of an advancing column, or on the ground in front of a weak part of our line.
From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Francis J. (Francis James) Lippitt
The cor de chasse was a delightful novelty to me, and I soon learned all the calls—the débouché, the vue and the hallali, when the poor beast is at the last gasp.
From Chateau and Country Life in France by Mary Alsop King Waddington
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