The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of the sand glacis, swiftly fleets back again, and is met and buried by the next breaker.
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Glacis
//ˈɡleɪsɪs//
Synonyms for "glacis" (80 found)
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Related words (40)
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48 translations across 31 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- гласіс noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гла́сис noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Catalan
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 斜堤 noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Czech
2 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- koliště noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Dutch
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Estonian
1 entries- glassii noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Finnish
4 entries- etulevy noun (angled armour plate)
- linnanpaltta noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- loiva rinne noun (gentle incline)
- luiska noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
French
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
German
1 entries- Glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Hebrew
1 entries- חלקלקה noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Irish
1 entries- claonfort noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Italian
1 entries- spalto noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Japanese
1 entries- 斜堤 noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Korean
1 entries- 글라시 noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Lithuanian
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Macedonian
4 entries- бла́г на́клон noun (gentle incline)
- зако́сена пло́ча noun (angled armour plate)
- на́клон noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- па́дина noun (gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material)
Māori
1 entries- tahitahi noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Persian
1 entries- شیب حصار noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Polish
1 entries- przedstok noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Portuguese
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Romanian
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Russian
3 entries- гласис noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- лобова́я дета́ль noun (angled armour plate)
- поло́гий скат noun (gentle incline)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- glàsija noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- гла̀сија noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Slovene
1 entries- glasija noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Spanish
1 entries- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Swedish
2 entries- glaci noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- glacis noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Turkish
2 entries- glasi noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
- şev noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гласи́с noun (gentle incline in front of a fortification)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
[T]ook his place with solemn / Air 'midst the rest, who kept their valiant faces / And levelled weapons still against the glacis.
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[T]heir hearts had failed them at the silence and the blaze of lighted ships from end to end of the harbour, with eerie beams of the searchlights revealing the bleakness of the glacis they would have to cross.
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