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
Others are escort sprints where you have to guide a vulnerable ally through enfilade fire.
From Time ● Aug. 28, 2017
Anybody in the enfilade of dove gray salons, where Christian Dior himself once trod, could feel the hand of history.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2010
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
He braced himself for one of Lillian’s cold, puissant lectures to enfilade the dispirited citadel of his self-respect.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Everything is jumbled under this terrible fire which enfilades from all sides.
From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The trench enfilades the valley beyond, and the valley is covered with barbed-wire and gun-pits.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis
So necessity, the mother of invention, suggested to him a formation which poured something like two crossing enfilades into the head of the cavalry column.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
The salient shuts in the end of the valley and enfilades it.
From Attack An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 by John Masefield
Traveling there, Ireland photographed enfiladed rooms in knotty pine, and glass-front built-ins abandoned to a lone rifle and scant rows of books.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
"They’re simple and not enfiladed, so the progression from one to another never feels monotonous. You always pass through a connective space with natural light."
From Architectural Digest ● Sep. 9, 2014
The next charge struck die angle at the boulder, at the colors, lapped around it, ran into the new line, was enfiladed, collapsed.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
By means of these traverses each section of the trench becomes a separate trench, and the whole of it cannot be enfiladed.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
On 20th October the Manchesters were surrounded, and their trenches were enfiladed by German fire.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result, however, was that the Irish Tynesiders were exposed on their right to a deadly enfilading fire that swept across from Oviliers, which was not yet in British possession.
From The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' by Michael MacDonagh
The forts were connected by a curtain of rifle-pits containing a re-entrant angle, thus providing for a reciprocal enfilading fire in case either was attacked.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson
Cannonading a ship, so that the shot shall range in the direction of her whole length between decks, called a raking fire; and is similar to military enfilading.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
Every advantage should be taken of cover, and battalion and company commanders should look out for and occupy positions from which they would be able to bring an enfilading fire to bear upon the enemy.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
