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enfilade
[ en-fuh-leyd, -lahd, en-fuh-leyd, -lahd ]
noun
- Military.
- a position of works, troops, etc., making them subject to a sweeping fire from along the length of a line of troops, a trench, a battery, etc.
- the fire thus directed.
- Architecture.
- an axial arrangement of doorways connecting a suite of rooms with a vista down the whole length of the suite.
- an axial arrangement of mirrors on opposite sides of a room so as to give an effect of an infinitely long vista.
verb (used with object)
- Military. to attack with an enfilade.
enfilade
/ 藢蓻苍蹿瑟藞濒别瑟诲 /
noun
- a position or formation subject to fire from a flank along the length of its front
verb
- to subject (a position or formation) to fire from a flank
- to position (troops or guns) so as to be able to fire at a flank
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 耻苍路别苍顎僨颈路濒补诲顎卐诲 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of enfilade1
Example Sentences
Traveling there, Ireland photographed enfiladed rooms in knotty pine, and glass-front built-ins abandoned to a lone rifle and scant rows of books.
Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.
But the rules weren鈥檛 that obtrusive 鈥 if you can handle a supermarket aisle in these bad new days, you can handle an enfilade of galleries.
He braced himself for one of Lillian鈥檚 cold, puissant lectures to enfilade the dispirited citadel of his self-respect.
Up ahead, the plesiosaur riders were probably readying their artillery, or simply loading their muskets to enfilade them as soon as they were in range.
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