单词 | chemin de ronde |
释义 | chemin de ronden. Architecture. Chiefly in France: a walkway or passage which runs behind the parapet of castle, town wall, etc., allowing guards or troops to move around the upper levels of a fortification with some degree of protection. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > between ramparts and wall of town way of the rounds1638 chemin de ronde1691 1691 A. Swall tr. S. Le P. de Vauban New Method Fortification i. iv. 10 The Chemin de Ronde, is a Walk betwen the Rampart and the Wall. 1782 J. Yeo Omar & Zemira I. 172 A pleasant chemin des rondes, where we occasionally walked. 1841 Times 19 May 6/2 There are not less than 2,500 employed in cutting out the foundation, forming the Chemin-de-ronde, preparing mortar, and cutting stone. 1933 Art Bull. 15 177 The luxury of covered chemins-de-ronde whereon men at arms kept watch. 2004 Hist. Today (Nexis) June 28 The chemin de ronde, angle towers and machicolations took on a purely ornamental, even a symbolic, aspect. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1691 |
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