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redoubt

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[ ri-dout ]

noun

  1. Fortification.
    1. an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.
    2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.
  2. any safe and secure place or situation; refuge; stronghold:

    Lebanon has represented one of the last redoubts of Christianity in the Middle East.



Redoubt

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[ ri-dout, ree-dout ]

noun

  1. Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3,108 meters).

redoubt

/ 谤瑟藞诲补蕣迟 /

noun

  1. an outwork or detached fieldwork defending a pass, hilltop, etc
  2. a temporary defence work built inside a fortification as a last defensive position
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of redoubt1

First recorded in 1600鈥10; from French redoute, from Italian ridotto, from Late Latin reductus 鈥渁 refuge,鈥 noun use of past participle of Latin 谤别诲奴肠别谤别 鈥渢o lead back鈥; reduce
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of redoubt1

C17: via French from obsolete Italian ridotta , from Medieval Latin reductus shelter, from Latin 谤别诲奴肠别谤别 to withdraw, from re- + 诲奴肠别谤别 to lead
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Genevi猫ve de Galard became a celebrated figure exactly 70 years ago when she was the only woman nurse tending French casualties inside the doomed redoubt of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam.

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The drills also included a component to the east of Taiwan - the island's rugged east coast on the other side of a mountain range has long been its military redoubt.

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He could continue to sleep in the birch, where, if not completely protected, he had the advantage of a high redoubt, the upper hand in case of a conflict.

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National-security warnings that Ukraine will fall without U.S. aid would take on heightened urgency if Johnson started to see Ukraine as an evangelical redoubt and potential wellspring of missionary action in a godless Europe.

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At the installation 鈥 a cliff-side redoubt overlooking vast deforested areas and topped with a gigantic transmitter 鈥 Wenjie quickly learns the truth.

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