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Curtain (The)

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In fortification, the line of rampart which joins together the flanks of two “bastions” (q.v.).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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