| 单词 | military architecture |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilitary architecture military architecture n. (a) the science of fortification; (b) military buildings or constructions.Antoine Deville's Les Fortifications was first published in 1629 (see quot. 1645). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > construction of defensive works > science of fortification1642 military architecture1645 military engineering1801 1645 D. Papillon Pract. Abstr. Fortification & Assailing 106 Now to decide this point I leave it to the judicious Reader, yet I will inform him that..De Ville, [margin See his Military Architecture.] Petro Sardy, and the greater part of the Italian and French Commanders, side in their judgement, with the first opinion here related. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. iii. 21 Mons. Blondel, with almost as many more books of military architecture, as Don Quixote was found to have of chivalry, when the curate and barber invaded his library. 1805 T. M. Harris Jrnl. Tour 166 It is true such fortifications were not comparable to those of the Europeans, because neither was their military architecture perfected, nor had they occasion to cover themselves from artillery, of which they had no experience or conception. 1987 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. (Suppl.) 6/1 The exterior is styled after Norman military architecture—a mass of great walls and crenellated towers built on a fanciful scale. < as lemmas |
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