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Definition of Glacises
1. glacis [n] - See also: glacis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glacises
Literary usage of Glacises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"They reach their glacises, their ditches, covered ways, correct as mathematics ;
tear-out chevaux-de-frise, hew-down palisades, in the given number of ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"They reach their glacises, their ditches, covered •>~ays, correct as mathematics;
tear out chevaux-de-frise, i:"w down palisades, in the given number of ..."