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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This situation was bad enough as point d'appui for an advance; to resist a counter-attack or raid it was deplorable.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Rose, Geoffrey Keith
With this permanent sovereign family as the point d'appui, it has been easier in Japan than in any other country to preserve things historic.
From An Introduction to the History of Japan by Hara, Katsuro
There must also be a single chief centre, with which all these different disturbances may be connected, and from which, as from a common point d'appui, the reactions against them may take their rise.
From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Butler, Samuel
But for the moment the point to be noted is that all of this idealistic doctrine is an inference, or a development which finds its point d'appui in the fact of sensation.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Boston, however, was her point d'appui, and in it she formed acquaintances of every class, the most utilitarian and the most idealistic.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
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