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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In fortification, an interior glacis, placed in the ditch, with its crest-high enough to mask the scarp-wall from the plunging fire of distant batteries: intended to prevent besiegers from effecting a practicable breach in the wall unless they succeed in establishing their batteries on this interior glacis.
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Men with tender faces required a cloth face-cover in the wind.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848
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"There's no mention of a face-cover in the Koran," she says.
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