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- noun Plural form of
guerite .
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There were four ramparts, and at the corners of the fort were higher citadels, little more than guerites for the shelter of sentries, but the citadels effectively blocked swift movement from one rampart to the next.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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