redoubt
[ri-dout]
- an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.
- an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.
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Origin of redoubt
1600–10; < French redoute < Italian ridotto < Late Latin reductus a refuge, noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere to lead back; see reduce
Redoubt
[ri-dout, ree-dout]
- Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
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Contemporary Examples
He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.
The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep red sea.
Or does it want to remain a redoubt for a shrinking minority of older whites?
Even so, he will be calling many of the shots from his Middle East redoubt, a reality few dispute.
Historical Examples
The redoubt itself was at the apex of a broad angle of trenches.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
Meanwhile the British right center was held up by the redoubt.
Putnam showed him the redoubt, saying, "There you will be covered."
The Siege of BostonAllen French
For the men in the redoubt there were two more hours of waiting.
The Siege of BostonAllen French
Howe disposed his forces in three columns, to attack the three faces of the redoubt.
The Siege of BostonAllen French
redoubt
- an outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop, etc
- a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position
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Word Origin
C17: via French from obsolete Italian ridotta, from Medieval Latin reductus shelter, from Latin redūcere to withdraw, from re- + dūcere to lead
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Word Origin and History for redoubt
n.
also redout, "small, enclosed military work," c.1600, from French redoute (17c.), from Italian ridotto, earlier ridotta, "place of retreat," from Medieval Latin reductus "place of refuge, retreat," noun use of past participle of reducere "to lead or bring back" (see reduce). The -b- was added by influence of unrelated English redoubt (v.) "to dread, fear" (see redoubtable). As an adjective, Latin reductus meant "withdrawn, retired; remote, distant."
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