rampart
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Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.
From BBC • May 5, 2025
Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022
“If this wall breaks, there’s simply no holding back the Java Sea,” said Brinkman, gesturing from the rampart toward the city.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2017
In the late afternoon, my guide Izabela meets me outside a McDonald’s next to a historic rampart that once was part of the city walls.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2016
He looked terrified as he stared into Dumbledore’s face, which was even paler, and rather lower than usual, as he had slid so far down the rampart wall.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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