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.

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

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

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

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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.

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