Length of bank or wall forming part of the defensive boundary of a fortification.
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Examples for "rampart "
Examples for "rampart "
1 The rampart is lofty and of many colours, in the rainbow style.
2 And he heard footsteps up on the rampart moving toward his position.
3 The rampart of the Alps stood out more clearly against the sky.
4 The sound fell dead against the rampart of a thousand listening trees.
5 It is rampart , towering and impregnable, between the garden and the desert.
1 In the very front, now nearing the city ramparts , was one man.
2 The artillery responds from the city ramparts .
3 The Cossacks retired, preparing to go into camp; but the Lyakhs showed themselves again on the city ramparts with tattered mantles.
4 For modern-day outlaws, you can visit Freetown Christiana, the former army barracks and city ramparts claimed by hippies during the 1970s.
5 They came across the East River at Kips Bay, about three miles above the city ramparts , near the Murray Hill estate.
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