A chemin de ronde (French, "round path"' or "patrol path"; French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də ʁɔ̃d]), also called an allure, alure or, more prosaically, a wall-walk, is a raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement.In early fortifications, high castle walls were difficult to defend from the ground.
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1 Whether its allure is as strong outside Africa remains to be seen.
2 Strength in stocks also sapped the safe-haven allure of U.S. government debt.
3 Such is the emotive allure of horses: powerful yet all too vulnerable.
4 But in reality, it has lost much of its allure for investors.
5 The problems have so far failed to dull Thailand's centuries-old exotic allure .
1 Archers and footmen guarded the wall - walk , one every three feet or so.
2 Raj Ahten's flameweavers ran to the wall - walk above the city gates.
3 Young men, torchbearers, were racing along the wall - walk , bringing light to anyone who wanted it.
4 Atop the wall - walk , there had been a massacre.
5 He succumbed atop the wall - walk , felt it swaying.
1 Above the gates, on the walls, was the alure , the stone walkway where armed sentries went on their ceaseless patrols.
2 I am heartily glad that Charlie has given Alured a sound thrashing.
3 Alured and Trevor Lea have always been remarkably alike.
4 Alured of Rievaux, 1109-66: The Battle of the Standard.
5 My brother spoke, Justice will no doubt be done; but the question does not lie between you and me, but between me and Alured .
1 Even "a sort of chemin de ronde " remains around the clocher, perhaps once provided with a parapet of defence.
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