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- noun Plural form of
rampier .
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Examples
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And though not many Roman habitations are now known, yet some, by old works, rampiers, coins, and urns, do testify their possessions.
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It hath for the Inner warde two strong castles situated on the top of two high cragges of a rocke, a bow shoot distant the one from the other: the rocke is vnassaultable, for the second warde it hath strong walles with rampiers and trenches made as well as any arte can deuise.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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You shall leave some captain here to have the charge of this garrison, with a party competent for keeping of the place, which, besides its natural strength, is made stronger by the rampiers and fortresses of your devising.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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You shall leave some captain here to have the charge of this garrison, with a party competent for keeping of the place, which, besides its natural strength, is made stronger by the rampiers and fortresses of your devising.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In the morning he stormed and took the bulwarks and castle, which afterwards he fortified with rampiers, and furnished with all ammunition requisite, intending to make his retreat there, if he should happen to be otherwise worsted; for it was a strong place, both by art and nature, in regard of the stance and situation of it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In the morning he stormed and took the bulwarks and castle, which afterwards he fortified with rampiers, and furnished with all ammunition requisite, intending to make his retreat there, if he should happen to be otherwise worsted; for it was a strong place, both by art and nature, in regard of the stance and situation of it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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And though not many Roman habitations are now known, yet some, by old works, rampiers, coins, and urns, do testify their possessions.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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The Castle on a lofty rock is so strongly grounded, bounded, and founded, that by force of man it can never be confounded; the foundation and walls are unpenetrable, the rampiers impregnable, the bulwarks invincible, no way but one it is or can be possible to be made passable.
The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor John Taylor 1616
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Makers of basketts to cary earthe to fortes and rampiers.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In the morning he stormed and took the bulwarks and castle, which afterwards he fortified with rampiers, and furnished with all ammunition requisite, intending to make his retreat there, if he should happen to be otherwise worsted; for it was a strong place, both by art and nature, in regard of the stance and situation of it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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