enfilades

The fashionable new hotels particuliers , as private homes were called—many of which were built near the city's financial hub—transformed the traditional, sequential arrangements or enfilades of stately, public rooms into intimate, functional spaces that allowed for comforts and privacy unknown to earlier generations.

With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

The fashionable new hotels particuliers , as private homes were called—many of which were built near the city's financial hub—transformed the traditional, sequential arrangements or enfilades of stately, public rooms into intimate, functional spaces that allowed for comforts and privacy unknown to earlier generations.

With All the Time in the World Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

Houses are all corners and enfilades...and you can shoot a lot easier with a handgun w/o exposing much of you to the bad guys fire.

Oh, the things people search for. Ann Althouse 2008

To complete the view, the eye enfilades Princes Street, black with traffic, and has a broad look over the valley between the Old Town and the New: here, full of railway trains and stepped over by the high North Bridge upon its many columns, and there, green with trees and gardens.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

Francesco talked to his mouse even during the ambushes and sudden enfilades, and all of us were on the verge of madness.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

The true summit is two hundred yards ahead and there's a rise of ground out on our right flank, like a little knoll all covered with aloes, that enfilades our whole position.

The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966

"It's not much of a place for it," he said; "where we ought to have it is to the right of the sap, so that it enfilades the whole front of that trench."

Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather

The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It was the old story over again -- that shell fire, unless it enfilades, does not kill men in trenches.

With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train Ernest N. Bennett

The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.

Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 John Masefield 1929