vauntmure

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French avant-mur. See vanguard and mure.

Noun

vauntmure (plural vauntmures)

  1. A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vauntmure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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