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
One of them, “View From the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight,” shows two sailors and a soldier standing on the rampart of a citadel that was battered during the Napoleonic Wars.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2023
And the overwhelming suspicion was that he was looking for a rampart to which he could retreat in the event of outright civilisational collapse.
From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2018
“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
A thick stone parapet protected the outer edge of the rampart, reaching as high as Sansa's chin, with crenella- tions cut into it every five feet for archers.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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