épaulement
noun
a position in which the shoulders are at right angles to the direction of the supporting leg, with one shoulder thrust forward and one back.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Two field-guns were brought up on the night of the 14th and placed in épaulements that had been dug in rear of the front-line trench to receive them.
From From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry