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单词 fascinage
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fascinagen.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fascinage.
Etymology: < French fascinage embankment composed of fascines (1681 or earlier) < fascine fascine n. + -age -age suffix. Compare slightly earlier fascinade n.
Civil Engineering. Obsolete.
A structure, esp. the foundation or wall of a jetty, composed of fascines (fascine n. 1a). Also: fascines collectively, as used in construction. Cf. fascinade n.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > gabions or fascines > collectively
gabionade1595
fascinade1711
fascinage1713
1713 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 29 Dec. in Huntington Libr. Q. (1950) 13 289 The French agree to destroy the Jettêes, cut off the Piles, and take up the Chests of Stones, but think that it is unnecessary to pull away the Fascinage, or Bed of Fagots, which lyes under, and is the Foundation of the whole Work.
1836 F. Wilkinson Let. in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (24th Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. 173) IV. 13 Every engineer must know that a fascinage, or especially simple brush work, must be secured in some substantial manner; otherwise, in a rapid current, it will assuredly go with the stream.
1891 Sci. Amer. 31 Jan. 72/3 The first portion [of the jetty] is built of creosoted timber, fascinage or basket work and stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020).
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