enceinte

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A moss-grown path round the walls will give a quick walker ten minutes' exercise to make the round from one tower of the gateway to the other Within the enceinte are the remains of the old castle, still solid and upright; erected, it is recorded, by the English during their long occupation of this country.

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  1. adjective Carrying an unborn child; pregnant.
  2. noun An encircling fortification around a fort, castle, or town.
  3. noun A structure or an area protected by an encircling fortification.

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  • Or are there other suspects, whether enceinte or not, who have not been named? —  North Coast Journal Comments
  • They are arming the forts and enceinte, and the city is being provisioned for a siege Paris!" —  Lorraine A romance
  • But at Vence the boulevard de l'enceinte is circular--a modest Ringstrasse_, marking without interruption the old town from the new. —  Riviera Towns
  • The slums and alleys and huddle of houses in the old enceinte were swept away, and replaced by broad boulevards, fringed with museums and churches and picture galleries. —  The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert
  • The wall screening the Ceinture Railway between Auteuil and Vaugirard has been dreadfully battered in various places The Bois de Boulogne, in a semicircle from about the Villa Rothschild to Bagatelle, following the race course at Longchamps, is one vast camp, and from this camp to the village of Boulogne the work of constructing trenches parallel with the enceinte is being pushed rapidly forward. —  The Insurrection in Paris
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inclinaison ·  chaine ·  conduite ·  volonte ·  compagnie ·  recherche ·  plaisanterie ·  largeur ·  emblazon ·  fuite ·  valait ·  tete
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. French, from Old French, ultimately from Latin inciēns, pregnant; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.
  2. French, from Late Latin incīncta, from feminine past participle of incingere, to surround closely : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Latin cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, from enceinte (from Latin incincta), feminine past participle of enceindre = Provencal encenher = Italian incingere, from Latin incingere, gird about, surround, from in, in, + cingere, gird: see ceint, cincture, and cf. encincture.
  2. French, feminine of enceint (from Latin incinctus), past participle of enceindre, from Latin incingere, gird about: see enceinte, n.
 

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