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rampart |
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rampart Noun a mound of earth or wall built to protect a fort or city [Old French]
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rampart noun defence, wall, parapet, fortification, security, guard, fence, fort, barricade, stronghold, bastion, embankment, bulwark, earthwork, breastwork |
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In old times the settlers used to be astounded by the inroads of the northern Indians coming down upon them from this mountain rampart through some defile known only to themselves. A river whose estuary resembles a breach in a sand rampart may flow through a most fertile country. Some intrepid larches waved green pennons in the very midst of the turbulent water, here and there a veteran lay with his many-summered head abased in the rocky course of the stream, and here was a young foolhardy beech that had climbed within a dozen yards of the rampart. |
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