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单词 avant-mure
释义

avant-muren.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s avaunt-.
Etymology: < French avant-mur fore-wall. Commonly aphetized in 16–17th cent. to vanmure , vaumure n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: aˈvant-ˌmure.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
The outer wall of a fortress, or in circumvallation. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > wall [verb (transitive)] > fortify with outer wall
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > wall of fortified town > outer wall
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Avant-mur, an auant-mure; fore-wall, out-wall, or outward-wall.

Derivatives

avaunt-mure v.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 440/2 I avauntmure, I make a wall by fore the walles of a towne, Je auant mure. This towne is strongely avauntmured.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 179 An Avaunt-mure, or a Fortress before a wall, Antemurale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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