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parapet

[par-uh-pit, -pet] / ˈpær ə pɪt, -ˌpɛt /


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The post included a photo of the actor’s recently released memoir, “You With the Sad Eyes,” and a coffee mug resting on what appears to be a home parapet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

But women's football and sport wouldn't be where it is if no-one put their head above the parapet and ripped up the rule book.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

In the most superficial way, the addition is a contextual match for the main house—it is white, and it is a similar height, with a cornice and a matching parapet.

From Slate • Aug. 5, 2025

A large section of the stone parapet wall was dislodged from the pier and some of it washed into the sea.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

The Deeping Wall was twenty feet high, and so thick that four men could walk abreast along the top, sheltered by a parapet over which only a tall man could look.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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