Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Earthworks behind a fortified place, designed to protect it from attack in the rear.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military An
embankment built to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack.
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Examples
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Violinistas tocavam músicas da série aos automobilistas parados nos semáforos enquanto que dois mafiosos italianos (ao estilo de Sopranos) colavam nos carros "tiros de balas" com a comunicação da nova temporada.
Archive 2008-10-01 Red 2008
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Violinistas tocavam músicas da série aos automobilistas parados nos semáforos enquanto que dois mafiosos italianos (ao estilo de Sopranos) colavam nos carros "tiros de balas" com a comunicação da nova temporada.
Sopranos Red 2008
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The redoubts were shelled while I slept and one high explosive landed just behind the parados beside the bomb supply.
The 5th Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches Victoria Janssen 2010
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The unseen figure stood up and moved a step, till his back was against the parados.
Greenmantle 2005
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He crawled forward, an inch at a time, taking no sort of risk, and presently found himself looking at the parados of
Greenmantle 2005
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Á frente, inúmeros carros parados, uma constelção improvisada de luzes de travagem, piscas e luzes de presença.
Oito da manhã na auto-estrada Artur 2005
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This is a document called the Parado (ph) Chart, which parados from largest to smallest the occurrence rates. later, you'll see that we actually adjust this based on the number of tires produced to actually get to a parts-per-million kind of defect rate.
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Out of sight, beyond the parados, were heard the first notes of the flute playing in the chorus.
The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966
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We stood about on parapets, and walked all over the place, stopping motionless now and again as a star shell went up, and moving on again just in time to hear a bullet or two whizz past behind and go "smack" into a tree in the hedge behind, or "plop" into the mud parados.
Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather
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The parados was fairly good, though in many places there was none at all.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
chained_bear commented on the word parados
The inner or rear wall of a wall walk.
August 26, 2008