| 单词 | chemise wall |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschemise wall 2. Fortification. A wall with which a medieval earthwork was lined as a fortification. Also chemise wall. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > wall of fortified town > inner wall countermure1524 chemise1691 1691 A. Swall tr. S. Le P. de Vauban New Method Fortification i. iv. 10 The Shirt or Chemise [Fr. chemise], is the Solidity of the Wall from the Talus to the Stone Row. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Chemise, in Fortification, is a Wall with which a Bastion, or any other Bulwark of Earth is lined for its greater Support and Strength. 1745 Mil. Dict. in Theatre of Present War (at cited word) Chemise, a Word almost out of Date, formerly signifying the Wall that faced or lined a Work of Earth. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 57 Chemise, in mediæval fortification, an additional escarp or counter-guard wall, covering the lower part of the escarp. 1888 D. Macgibbon Archit. of Provence & Riviera 248 The donjon, or redoubt, which was detached from the other works,..often had a ditch and an enclosing wall, or chemise. 1952 M. A. Owings Arts in Middle Eng. Romances 46 The approach to the keep was then by a gateway through the chemise into the court. 2003 C. Gravett Norman Stone Castles II. 11 The tower is set within a chemise wall that seems to have been built at the same time or possibly earlier. < as lemmas |
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