place of arms

American  

noun

1. an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.

2. an enlarged part of the covered way in a fortification.

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Etymology

Origin of place of arms

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

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place of arms

They established a central camp and place of arms in the land of Amor, or of the Amorites, and their southward movement speedily became a menace to the Egyptian Empire.

From The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie

Speckle’s other favourite ideas are here: the cavaliers and double parapets and his own particular invention of the low batteries behind the re-entering place of arms and the gorge of the ravelin.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

The whole countryside is a place of arms.

From They Shall Not Pass by Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds

But the Hotel, though held like a place of arms, was untenanted by the marshal, his retinue, or the lost Scottish maids.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

This study, therefore, was a place of arms.

From Francezka by Molly Elliot Seawell