point d'appui
Britishnoun
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a support or prop
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(formerly) the base or rallying point for a military unit
Example Sentences
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The very want of a point d'appui irritated a brain already excited to a fine condition of unrest.
From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Sir Max Pemberton
Now, Mark wished devoutly that the idea of that dimple as a sort of point d'appui had never entered his thoughts, but there was the regrettable fact.
From Enter Bridget by Thomas Cobb
Stormont had been reading to her—they having found, after the half shy tentatives of new friends, a point d'appui in literature.
From The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Persians used it as a point d’appui for their assault.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
During the previous days the left flank of the German fighting position had a secure point d'appui on the Loire, but on the right such a support had been wholly lacking.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
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