enfilade

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  1. noun Gunfire directed along the length of a target, such as a column of troops.
  2. noun A target vulnerable to sweeping gunfire.
  3. noun Architecture A linear arrangement of a series of interior doors, as to a suite of rooms, so as to provide a vista when the doors are open.
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  • The batteries were calculated to command the beach and the crossing place of the marsh, and to rake and enfilade any column which might be advancing from either of those points toward the fort. —  Life and Times of Washington
  • "I saw It," she whimpered " "dragging a dead man through the corridor. —  The Bloody Crown of Conan
  • It would not be possible to enfilade this line even with an RPD from a prepared position. —  The Seventh Scroll
  • Rodes in his report speaks of it as "a murderous enfilade, and reverse fire, to which, in addition to the direct fire it encountered, Daniel's brigade had been subject to from the time it commenced its final advance General Robinson states that these changes of front were made by his orders and under his personal supervision While Iverson was making his attack, Rodes sent one of his reserve brigades--the one just referred to, that of Daniel--against Stone. —  Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
  • “But if I am at one end of the long enfilade of rooms taking the Comtesse de Paris to her seat and another princess (Joinville or Chartres) should arrive; what has to be done?” —  My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879
 

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  1. French, series, string, row, from enfiler, to string together, run through, from Old French : en-, in, on; see en-1 + fil, thread (from Latin fīlum; see gwhī- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French enfilade, a suite of rooms, a string (as of phrases, etc.), a raking fire, literally a thread, from enfiler, thread, string, rake (a trench), rake (a vessel): see enfile.
  2. from enfilade, n.
 

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