glacis
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sɪs, ˈglæs Origin:
1665–75; < Middle French; akin to Old French glacier to slide; compare Latin glaciāre to make into ice; see glacé
1665–75; < Middle French; akin to Old French glacier to slide; compare Latin glaciāre to make into ice; see glacé
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| —n , pl -ises, -is | |
| 1. | a slight incline; slope |
| 2. | an open slope in front of a fortified place |
| 3. | short for glacis plate |
| [C17: from French, from Old French glacier to freeze, slip, from Latin glaciāre, from glaciēs ice] | |
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Glacis
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Word Origin & History
glacis
"sloping bank" (especially leading up to a fortification), 1672, from Fr. glacir "to freeze, make slippery," from O.Fr. glacier "to slip," from L. glaciare "to make or turn into ice," from glacies (see glacial).
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Example sentences
The design is for the fixture for the turret, rear, upper side and upper glacis panels.
Water had been thrown upon the glacis, so that it was slippery with ice.
On the glacis, or north bank of the demilune moat, a small cemetery was established when the fort was under construction.
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