FSPLANADE

, in Fortification, called also Glacis, a part which serves as a parapet to the counterscarp, or covert way; being a declivity or slope of earth, commencing from the top of the counterscarp, and losing itself insensibly in the level of the champaign.

Esplanade also means the ground which has been levelled from the glacis of the counterscarp, to the sirst houses; or the vacant space between the works and the houses of the town.

The term is also applied, in the general, to any piece of ground that is made flat or level, and which before had some eminence that incommoded the place.

ESTIVAL Occident, Orient, or Solstice. See OCCIDENT, Orient, Solstice.