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coupure|kuːˈpjʊə(r)|
[a. F. coupure, in OF. copeüre, coupeüre cutting, f. couper to cut: see -ure.]
Mil. A ditch or trench; esp. one dug by the besieged for purposes of defence. b. Fortif. A passage cut through the glacis in the re-entrant angle of the covered way, to facilitate the sallies of the besieged. (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.).
1710Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 639 The besiegers..made too deep coupures to drain the inundations. 1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5264/12 They carried all the Coupure which was behind the Monastry. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. ii, Making coupures (trenches or sunk barricades) in the streets. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 138/1 Portions of the faces..are isolated by a small ditch and parapet at right angles to the face, called a coupure. |
