† pas de sourisn.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pas de souris.

Etymology: < French pas de souris (1691; compare slightly earlier pas de la souris breadth of space between the moat and the ramparts of a castle), literally ‘mouse-steps’ < pas step (see pace n.¹) + de de prep. + souris mouse (see mouse n.).

Fortification. Obsolete.

A stairway running from an outwork to the ditch behind.

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > detached outwork > staircase from ravelin to ditch

pas de souris1704

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pas de Souris.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci. Lit., & Art 472/1 Stairs, called pas-de-souris, are constructed to facilitate the descent from the ravelin to the ditch.

1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 268 Stairs, or Pas de souris. These steps of masonry are made at the gorges of the several works, and at the salient, and re-entering angles of the counterscarp.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pas de souris
释义	† pas de sourisn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pas de souris. Etymology: < French pas de souris (1691; compare slightly earlier pas de la souris breadth of space between the moat and the ramparts of a castle), literally ‘mouse-steps’ < pas step (see pace n.¹) + de de prep. + souris mouse (see mouse n.). Fortification. Obsolete. A stairway running from an outwork to the ditch behind. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > detached outwork > staircase from ravelin to ditch pas de souris1704 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pas de Souris. 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci. Lit., & Art 472/1 Stairs, called pas-de-souris, are constructed to facilitate the descent from the ravelin to the ditch. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 268 Stairs, or Pas de souris. These steps of masonry are made at the gorges of the several works, and at the salient, and re-entering angles of the counterscarp. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704
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