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Meanings of wall-walk in inglés
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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Examples for "allure"
Examples for "allure"
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Whether its allure is as strong outside Africa remains to be seen.
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Strength in stocks also sapped the safe-haven allure of U.S. government debt.
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Such is the emotive allure of horses: powerful yet all too vulnerable.
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But in reality, it has lost much of its allure for investors.
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The problems have so far failed to dull Thailand's centuries-old exotic allure.
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Even "a sort of chemin de ronde" remains around the clocher, perhaps once provided with a parapet of defence.
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Above the gates, on the walls, was the alure, the stone walkway where armed sentries went on their ceaseless patrols.
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I am heartily glad that Charlie has given Alured a sound thrashing.
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Alured and Trevor Lea have always been remarkably alike.
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Alured of Rievaux, 1109-66: The Battle of the Standard.
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My brother spoke, Justice will no doubt be done; but the question does not lie between you and me, but between me and Alured.
Usage of wall-walk in inglés
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Archers and footmen guarded the wall-walk, one every three feet or so.
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Raj Ahten's flameweavers ran to the wall-walk above the city gates.
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Young men, torchbearers, were racing along the wall-walk, bringing light to anyone who wanted it.
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Atop the wall-walk, there had been a massacre.
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He succumbed atop the wall-walk, felt it swaying.
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As Fallion raced out the tower door, along a wall-walk, he grabbed a torch from a sconce.
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Blood pooled hot upon the wall-walk.
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There was a young man standing on the short length of the wall-walk that led to the Garden Tower.
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We walked for a time in silence until we eventually left the corridor and stepped out onto a wall-walk between towers.
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A reaver raced along the wall-walk, and having seen the damage that its weight alone could cause, it bounded atop the tower.
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Alone, in the dark, Myrrima climbed a tower up onto the wall-walk above the Duke's Keep and stared out over the plains.
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In a daze, he crawled backward against the stone of the wall-walk, tried to clear out of the path of other castle defenders.
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Indeed, men crowded the wall-walks and were stuffed in every tower like meat in sausage skins.
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All along the wall-walks, men around him huddled, wiping their faces, squinting to pierce the darkness.
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The mage's spells had so wrung the sweat from them that many had fallen to the wall-walks.
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"Bah!" I stalked off the wall-walk and back into the palace.
Translations for wall-walk
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