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Definition of Escarps
1. escarp [v] - See also: escarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escarps
Literary usage of Escarps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences: Framed from Contributions of Officers by Great Britain Army. Royal Engineers (1862)
"Again, if the escarps of the body of the place are exposed low enough to be
effectively breached from a ..."
2. History of Art in Primitive Greece: Mycenian Art by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1894)
"The enclosing wall began from the point where the escarps of the Chavos cease ;
it ran along the edge of the hill, a trifle above the middle of its height, ..."
3. Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir John Burgoyne, Bart by George Wrottesley (1873)
"This is old, of an enormous profile, its escarps built on rock of from fifty to
ninety feet high. It is covered by a counterscarp and the old works of the ..."
4. The Great Siege: The Investment and Fall of Port Arthur by Benjamin Wegner Norregaard (1906)
"... lunette had a smaller one, but neither the escarps nor the counter-escarps
were built in stone or concrete, and the moats were undefended by any kind of ..."
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