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RETIRADE

\ɹɪtˈɜːɹe͡ɪd], \ɹɪtˈɜːɹe‍ɪd], \ɹ_ɪ_t_ˈɜː_ɹ_eɪ_d]\

Definitions of RETIRADE

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

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A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A kind of retrenchment, as in the body of a bastion, which may be disputed inch by inch after the defenses are dismantled. It usually consists of two faces which make a reentering angle.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A kind of retrenchment, made of two faces, forming a re-entrant angle, to which the garrison may retreat and prolong the defence. See Retire.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

ret-i-rÃ¤d', n. a retrenchment in the body of a bastion which a garrison may defend. [Fr.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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