glacis

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He fancied himself transported into the scenery of his native land, where that beautiful Italian landscape begins at what Napoleon so cleverly described as the glacis of the Alps.

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  1. noun A gentle slope; an incline.
  2. noun A slope extending down from a fortification.
  3. noun A neutral area separating conflicting forces.

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  1. French, from Old French, from glacer, to slide, from glace, ice, from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs; see gel- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = D. G. Danish, etc., glacis, from French glacis, formerly also glassis, a slippery place, a sloping bank or cause-way, a strong pent-house upon the walls or the rampart of a fortress, from Old French glacis, icy, slippery, glacer, formerly also glasser, from Latin glaciare, freeze, harden: see glaciate.
 

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/ˈgleɪsɪs/
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