enceinte

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Its remains include an identifying tell mound, at the northern end of the site, a polygonal inner wall circuit, and a large outer defensive wall, or enceinte.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2024

And when Annette Bening appeared at the Academy Awards in 2000, gloriously enceinte in a dark gown, it sparked “a revolution,” Ms. Fuller said.

From New York Times • May 15, 2013

She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte.

From Time Magazine Archive

Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition."

From Time Magazine Archive

In modern fortresses the gate of a detached fort or an enceinte de suret� is intended purely as a defence against an unexpected rush.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various