"Coupure" is a word in ENGLISH
A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by
the besieged.
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.
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The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
Read the complete definitionabierto - (Sp. abierto) Open, accessible, affording free entrance or passage. Abierto ang bintánà, alágyan, etc. The window is open, …
Read the complete definitionabrigáwu n {1} apprentice on a ship. {2} one who works on a boat for his passage. v [A1; a12] …
Read the complete definitionThe expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
Read the complete definitionThe means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a …
Read the complete definitionTo bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; …
Read the complete definitionAn entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and …
Read the complete definitionIn mining law. A lateral entrance or passage lnto a mine; tbe opening by which a mine is entered, or …
Read the complete definitionági - Passage, trace, incident, event; to go by, pass by, pass through. Ang mga ági kag bilín sang salâ. …
Read the complete definitionA pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.
Read the complete definitionOne of the spaces in different parts of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with …
Read the complete definitionA passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
Read the complete definitionIn English law. A passage for the admission of air into a mine. To maliciously fill up, obstruct, or damage, …
Read the complete definitionAlso (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.
Read the complete definitionalágian - (H) Passage, thoroughfare, transit, road, way, path, track. (ági; alágyan id.).
Read the complete definitionáli v [A; c] block a path, prevent passage, be a barrier. Ang bahà nakaáli sa ámung pagtabuk, The flood …
Read the complete definitionA liberty of passage, open way, water-course, etc., for the tenant’s accommodation. Kitchen
Read the complete definitionTo treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally …
Read the complete definitionA narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
Read the complete definitionAny passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
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