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单词 semi-lune
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semi-lunen.

Etymology: As if < Latin *sēmilūna half-moon: see semi- prefix 2b(a) and lune n.3Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsemi-lune.
A semilunar or crescent-shaped form, structure, etc.; Fortification. = demilune n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > demilune
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1862 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies: Assyria iv Between this outer barrier and the City moat were interposed a species of semilune.
1878 L. Holden Human Osteol. (ed. 5) 162 The ‘semilunar’ bone may be told by its two ‘semilunes’ below.
1880 V. Harris & Power Man. Physiol. Lab. 46 Granular semilunar bodies, the semilunes of Heidenhain.
1905 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 4/4 The vast semi-lune along the Strand.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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