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Circumvallation   Listen
noun
Circumvallation  n.  (Mil.)
(a)
The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
(b)
A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.





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"Circumvallation" Quotes from Famous Books



... his retinue approached this rude yet stately building, it was not, as at present, surrounded by external fortifications. The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott


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