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lunette
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In fortification , a lunette was originally an outwork of half-moon shape; later it became a redan with short flanks, in trace somewhat resembling a bastion standing by itself without curtains on either side. The gorge was generally open. One notable historical ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "semi-circular horseshoe," from Middle French lunette (13c.), literally "little moon," diminutive of lune "moon," from Latin luna (see luna ). Later applied to a wide range of objects and ornamentations resembling a crescent moon.
Usage examples of lunette.
Lalouette, ayant mis le coton dans leurs oreilles et les lunettes bleues sur le nez, attendaient.
They leaned him over the trestle and opened wide the fitted form of the lunette into which the brank just fit.
A la tombee du jour, il grimpait les degres, ayant sous chaque bras une boite longue et noire, qui renfermait, assurement, les lunettes et les mineraux.
A smaller fort, mounting five guns, was built at the northwest corner, and at the northeast and southeast corners were small lunettes, with a couple of howitzers each.
Then it was refurbished and rebuilt, with thick stone walls that met at the corners of rooms in graceful arches called lunettes, with floors of brick laid out in herringbone patterns, with intricate wooden ceilings and wide windows that were shuttered, barred, and set so low they seemed to kneel into the street.
Abruptly, with a lightning velocity, these broadenings expanded into immense lunettes, two tremendous curving and crablike claws.
Sticking out of a crescent-shaped sand ridge of a type known as a lunette were some human bones.