defile

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My grandmother Defile who died with a bald head in a prison, because God had given her wings.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

A few hours later, after nightfall, he set off on foot by the road that leads to the Lancone Defile.

From The Isle of Unrest by Merriman, Henry Seton

Sadler, and a treaty was at last executed with all due solemnity, under a large cotton-tree at the entrance of Guthrie's Defile.

From Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Defile not her memory even by a thought, base boy!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

There are the "Occupation of the Defile of Teniah," "Combat of the Habrah, of the Sickak, of Samah, of Afzoum."

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Spooner, Shearjashub