Lexicographical Neighbors of Terrepleins
Literary usage of Terrepleins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Course of Military Engineering by Dennis Hart Mahan (1865)
"useful, are those which are on the prolongation of the terrepleins of tho work and
... To exceed this limit would encumber too much the terrepleins. ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1851)
"The terrepleins of all ramparts should have a small slope down, towards the
interior, in order that the rain-water may not lodge on them, ..."
3. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1858)
"The levee in front of this site has been repaired ; the breast-height walls,
parapets and terrepleins of the land fronts nearly completed ; the passage ..."
4. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1862)
"... the casemates and terrepleins of the north and south fronts, and provide for
mounting most of the guns on the water fronts. Appropriation asked, . ..."
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