Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, the shoulder of a bastion, or the angle made by the face and flank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) The shoulder of a bastion, or the place where its face and flank meet and form the angle, called the angle of the shoulder.
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- noun The
shoulder of abastion , or the place where itsface andflank meet and form theangle , called the angle of the shoulder.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Heu vi demain j'me fait operer de mon epaule alors pitete que j'pourrai pas ecrire sur mon blog!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Je lui accroche les cheveux sur le coté avec son ras de cou en forme de rose blanche en laissant juste une fine anglaise tomber sur son epaule droite ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Mon epaule est enflée et me bloque l'articulation du cou.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008
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Mon epaule se relevait toute seule et ma tete lui foutait un coup de boule!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Mais le lit est affreusement bas et on voit mon epaule qui depasse alors je demande aux filles ou j'pourrais me cachers dans la chambre parce que c petit et pis j'sais vraiment pas ou aller quoi!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Bah je me suis retourné le nez toujours fourré dans mon echarpe epaule relevé main dans les poches et j'me suis remis a marcher en lui tournant le dos en sortant un 'koi kestu veux?' ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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He said the next day there, at dinner, that for the rest of his life he should fear nothing so much as a lettre de cachet from a French secretary of state, or a coup d '` epaule from an English one.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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"Ah!" replied Bronze, shrugging up his shoulders, "dere be always in dese places people who love to give demselves ridicules: — for exemple; il ya la belle Madame Macfarlane, vid one epaule a half foot higher dan de odre, and who tink all men vill like her better dan her pretty belle fille.
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