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† vauntmure Obs.
Also 6 vauntemure, vauntmire, vantmure.
[Aphetic form of avantmure: see vant-, vaunt-.]
= vaumure.
1562J. Shute tr. Cambini's Turk. Wars 16 b, Throughe their long..neglygence of the Greekes for want of reparation, their vauntemures were utterlye decaied in many places. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. iii. 135 b, There fell downe a pane of the wall, and vauntmire of the Towne..sixe and twentie Poles longe. 1596Danett tr. Comines (1614) 231 Wherewith the wals, towers, and vantmures of the castell and towne were throughly battered. 1605Camden Rem. (1623) 206 He with another engine named the Warwolfe pierced with one stone, and cut as even as a thread, two Vauntmures. |