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