enceinte

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.

No other Anglo-French keep in Ireland had such an extensive enceinte.

The town is composed of stone-built houses of several storeys, and is surrounded, except on the sea face, by a fortified enceinte.

And at such times I can imagine that the roomy enceinte, and those long lines of buildings, may be cheerful enough.

In that confession he owned to have violated the person of Mary, and that she became enceinte; that she miscarried, and immediately took measures to rid herself of him.