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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
Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition."
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the interior of the ravelin it passed across the main ditch to a gate in the curtain of the enceinte.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
Others had a forbiddingly fierce aspect with their three enceintes still visible, their loopholes under the staircase, and their high turrets with pointed sides.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
The same leading idea is seen in most of these forts as in the new enceintes; i.e. a lunette, with a casemated keep at the gorge.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The castle stood upon high ground and consisted of three distinct enceintes or wards besides the keep, which was in this case merely a strong tower forming part of the innermost ward.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The remains of the city walls are considerable: three different enceintes, one within the other, enclose the upper and lower town and the acropolis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Such rejoicings are still customary at Constantinople, under the name of Donánmá, not only when the Sultanas are enceintes, but also when they are brought to bed.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
