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Enceinte   Listen
noun
Enceinte  n.  
1.
(Fort.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; called also body of the place.
2.
The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification. "The suburbs are not unfrequently larger than their enceinte."





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"Enceinte" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the French Build wall, or dig trench, Though he has no more princes to marry, Our trench is the sea, And our walls are the free, And we laugh at thy "grande enceinte, Paris." ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various


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