Associations to the word «Defilade»

Wiktionary

DEFILADE, verb. (transitive) To fortify something as a protection from enfilading fire.
DEFILADE, noun. A fortification having such protection.

Dictionary definition

DEFILADE, noun. The arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne