glacis

• He fell down the glacis, and a foraging party stripped him and buried him hurriedly in a ditch near by, and there he was left till six that evening. —  The Story of Rouen
• Snowballs were discharged at the bottom of the glacis, the slope was climbed, and the enemy arrived almost at the very walls, before Sweetheart made a motion. —  Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
• The more broken and precipitous the glacis, the more the ground leading up to the objective is dead. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
• On the 19th the sap reached the crest of the glacis, and on the 21st the engineer officer in charge announced that there were two practicable breaches. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
• At the moment when Bailly debouched between the glacis, the populace, who from the top of the bank looked down on the mayor, the bayonets, and the artillery, burst into threatening shouts and furious outcries against the national guard. —  History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution

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