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fosse       [fos, faws] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a moat or defensive ditch in a fortification, usually filled with water.
2.any ditch, trench, or canal.
Also, foss.


[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < MF < L fossa fossa]
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Fos·se [fos-ee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
Robert Louis (Bob), 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
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fosse also foss       (fŏs)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A ditch or moat.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fossa; see fossa.]

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Fos·se       (fŏs'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
American choreographer and director of Broadway and motion-picture productions, including Cabaret (1972), for which he won an Academy Award.

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fosse 
"ditch, trench," 1440, from O.Fr. fosse, from L. fossa "ditch," in full fossa terra, lit. "dug earth," from fem. pp. of fodere "to dig" (see fossil). The Fosse-way, one of the four great Roman roads of Britain, probably was so called from the ditch on either side of it.

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fosse

noun
ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water [syn: moat

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

fosse

Ditch\ (?; 224), n.; pl. Ditches. [OE. dich, orig. the same word as dik. See Dike.]

1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

2. Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.

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