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Definition of Barrages
1. barrage [v] - See also: barrage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barrages
Literary usage of Barrages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nile: Notes for Travellers in Egypt by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1907)
"Mainar Ber was ordered to finish the barrages on ... the work already done were
well known, no t to rented? them, awl the barrages «tre iS*u They had cost ..."
2. The Making of Modern Egypt by Auckland Colvin (1906)
"... barrages—Their object. SINCE the repulse of the Dervish invasion in 1889, and
the death of its leader, the chief seat in Cairo itself had become vacant. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1920)
"Open Dams, or barrages The subjects of earth, rock fill, and steel dams will not
be treated in this article, as the matter has been already dealt with in ..."
4. Traité théorique et pratique des turbines hydrauliques: turbines à réaction by Paul Boyeux (1905)
"La question des barrages fournil-ail, à elle seule, matière à des ... Dans l'Isère,
on établissait tous les barrages de faible hauteur au moyen de petits ..."
5. Regimental History: Three Hundred and Forty-first Field Artillery, Eighty by Robert Davis, John Joseph Pershing (1919)
"... and a number of barrages. The last barrage from this position was fired on
the evening of October 29th. We were under orders to advance to St. Benoit. ..."
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