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Definition of Rampires
1. rampire [n] - See also: rampire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rampires
Literary usage of Rampires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers Relating to the Navy During the Spanish War, 1585-1587 by Julian Stafford Corbett (1898)
"... ten days they came to us with a tlag of truce ; the cause was for that we
h.ul in every street at the outside of the town round about made rampires and ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Alexander Pope (1760)
"... 480 Where lay the fleets, and where the rampires ... where filler Simois Where
lay the fleets, end where the rampires Jt loeks at ..."
3. Early English and French Voyages: Chiefly from Hakluyt, 1534-1608 by Richard Hakluyt (1906)
"The citie of Hochelaga is round, compassed about with timber, with three course
of rampires, one within another framed like a sharpe Spire, ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1891)
"is round, compassed about with timber, with three courses of rampires, one within
another, ... The rampires are framed and fashioned with pieces of timber, ..."
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