coupure

French, from couper (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /kuːˈpjʊə(ɹ)/

coupure (plural coupures)

1. (fortification) A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
   • 1860, John Thomas Hyde, Elementary Principles of Fortification:

     It will be observed here, that the coupure is not cut through the scarp revetment of the face of the bastion, although it is necessary for it to go through the thickness of the parapet

• coupure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

From couper +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /ku.pyʁ/

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coupure f (plural coupures)

1. the act or result of cutting; a cut
2. interruption
3. power cut, blackout
4. cutting, cut out, clipping
   1. coupure de presse ― newspaper cutting, newspaper clipping
5. bill, a piece of paper money

• coupure de courant

• → Turkish: küpür

• “coupure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.