fraise

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"Ferry Hills" Fort—Earth and concrete—Very deep ditches, flanked by counterscarp galleries and a stone caponier—Casemated—Probable armament—Two 9.2-inch guns, six 7.5-inch guns—Wrought-iron fraise below counterscarp.

From Spies of the Kaiser Plotting the Downfall of England by Le Queux, William

It was the image of a woman in furred robes and spreading fraise, her hand lifted, her face addressed to the tabernacle.

From Crucial Instances by Wharton, Edith

Now and then he would ring up to know whether she preferred salmon pink to fraise �cras�e cushions, or he would come up to the hotel rent in twain by conflicting rugs.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

A fraise is a palisade horizontal, or nearly so, projecting from the scarp or counterscarp.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)

What needs there be sae great a fraise Wi' dringing dull Italian lays?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles