Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, an inclosure; the wall or rampart which surrounds a place, often composed of bastions or towers and curtains. The enceinte with the space inclosed within it is called the body of the place.
- noun The close or precinct of a cathedral, abbey, castle, etc.
- Pregnant; with child.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) The line of works which forms the main inclosure of a fortress or place; -- called also
body of the place . - noun The area or town inclosed by a line of fortification.
- adjective Pregnant; with child.
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- adjective archaic
Pregnant . - noun An
enclosure .
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- adjective in an advanced stage of pregnancy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Similarly, a woman who was inspecting was, in the past, often described as enceinte (directly from French) instead of "pregnant" (curiously, also of French origin).
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Similarly, a woman who was inspecting was, in the past, often described as enceinte (directly from French) instead of "pregnant" (curiously, also of French origin).
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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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The enceinte is the normal Arab "snake-fence" of dry and barked branches, which imperfectly defends the nurseries of young trees and the plots of Khubbayzah ( "edible mallows") from the adjoining camping-place of bald yellow clay.
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The first named on the south side of the river formed part of the ancient "enceinte" of the first château of Philip of Alsace, and was erected in the twelfth century, and famed with the château of Lille, as the most formidable strongholds of Flanders.
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They had to say it in Spanish, enceinte, you know.
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They had to say it in Spanish, enceinte, you know.
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They had to say it in Spanish, enceinte, you know.
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They had to say it in Spanish, enceinte, you know.
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They had to say it in Spanish, enceinte, you know.
chained_bear commented on the word enceinte
In castle architecture, an enclosure or courtyard.
August 25, 2008