enfilade
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The show, which is organized by Aperture in partnership with Kwame S. Brathwaite, Brathwaite’s son and director of the Kwame Brathwaite Archive, is arranged in three galleries along an enfilade.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021
Others are escort sprints where you have to guide a vulnerable ally through enfilade fire.
From Time • Aug. 28, 2017
Wright put a winter garden on one of the terraces, which, he explains, “made a space for entertaining in an enfilade with the breakfast room and the elliptical dining room.”
From Architectural Digest • Dec. 21, 2009
The guns to the right, on the Rocky Hill, would enfilade the line.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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