rampart

Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023

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

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

On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The 75-year-old leader made the announcement while speaking from the ramparts of New Delhi's imposing 17th-century Red Fort to mark the country's independence from Britain on August 15, 1947.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025

Jess Squirrel, aided by Silent Sam, maneuvered the barrel up on to the ramparts.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014

The Rounds have been cut across by a road, but there are distinct traces of two ramparted circles, with some remains of a sheltering earthwork to the west.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven,—heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

They sleep at Langres, which ramparted town surely ought to have left a pleasant reminiscence; but they had hitherto found the route uninteresting and fatiguing.

From Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti

The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson