Rampart
noun
A protective barrier or wall.
The city was surrounded by a high rampart to protect it from attacks.
Often appears as...
- high rampart
- defensive rampart
noun
A protective barrier or wall.
The city was surrounded by a high rampart to protect it from attacks.
Often appears as...
- high rampart
- defensive rampart
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Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Ramparts are often found in historical or military contexts, related to old cities or castles.
Visitors admired the medieval castle's ancient ramparts.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Defense
'Rampart' can symbolize any form of protection or defense, not just physical walls.
They stood as ramparts against the spread of misinformation.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
The term can be used metaphorically to describe a safeguard in an argument or discussion.
His wit served as a rampart in the debate.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Ramparts are often found in historical or military contexts, related to old cities or castles.
Visitors admired the medieval castle's ancient ramparts.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Defense
'Rampart' can symbolize any form of protection or defense, not just physical walls.
They stood as ramparts against the spread of misinformation.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
The term can be used metaphorically to describe a safeguard in an argument or discussion.
His wit served as a rampart in the debate.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Context
Ramparts are often found in historical or military contexts, related to old cities or castles.
Visitors admired the medieval castle's ancient ramparts.
Pro Tip 2/3Symbol of Defense
'Rampart' can symbolize any form of protection or defense, not just physical walls.
They stood as ramparts against the spread of misinformation.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
The term can be used metaphorically to describe a safeguard in an argument or discussion.
His wit served as a rampart in the debate.
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
traveling there and this was way back in 1981 when I was first visiting this place and doing a trek around the annapurna region which is a classic Trek that many people do when they go to Nepal I noticed caves surrounding some of the ramparts of the walls of the Kali
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The city of walls:...
Squads of Roman defenders would carry portable flame throwers, spraying anyone trying to climb out of the moat. The terrified victims would leap back, only to find that they still burned underwater. At times, the Romans would also mount siphons onto the ramparts,
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Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...
traveling there and this was way back in 1981 when I was first visiting this place and doing a trek around the annapurna region which is a classic Trek that many people do when they go to Nepal I noticed caves surrounding some of the ramparts of the walls of the Kali
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The city of walls:...
Squads of Roman defenders would carry portable flame throwers, spraying anyone trying to climb out of the moat. The terrified victims would leap back, only to find that they still burned underwater. At times, the Romans would also mount siphons onto the ramparts,
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan Activist
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.
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David Mitchell
English Novelist
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Sallust
Roman Historian
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Douglas Reed
British Journalist
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
American Author
Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
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Fatema Mernissi
Moroccan Activist
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Steve Erickson
American Novelist
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.
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Pierre Loti
French Writer
Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.
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David Mitchell
English Novelist
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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Sallust
Roman Historian
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Douglas Reed
British Journalist
It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
American Author
Music my rampart, and my only one.
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