rampart
Fortification.
a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet.
such an elevation together with the parapet.
anything serving as a bulwark or defense.
to furnish with or as if with a rampart.
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How to use rampart in a sentence
I do think, however, that having won core ramparts for our civil rights, they had to find something else to do and screaming at straight people, and at cis people seems to be the new mode.
In fact the Berlin Wall was called the Anti-Fascist rampart, as I recall.
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And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousA white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the chamade.
Gerona had at one time been a fortress, but it was now simply covered with a feeble rampart.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonIn 207 onwards, Severus built a new wall along the line of Hadrian's rampart.
The Towns of Roman Britain | James Oliver BevanThey reached the foot of the rampart, and by the stairway of a tower that was left unguarded, they mounted onto the curtain-wall.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche | Anatole France
British Dictionary definitions for rampart
/ (ˈræmpɑːt) /
the surrounding embankment of a fort, often including any walls, parapets, walks, etc, that are built on the bank
anything resembling a rampart in form or function, esp in being a defence or bulwark
Canadian a steep rock wall in a river gorge
(tr) to provide with a rampart; fortify
Origin of rampart
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