enfilade

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

Brodsky, future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, lived in a single room that had been part of a palatial enfilade.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Others are escort sprints where you have to guide a vulnerable ally through enfilade fire.

From Time ● Aug. 28, 2017

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

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

Ehrenbreitstein completely commands all the adjacent country and enfilades the embouchure of the Moselle which flows into the Rhine at Coblentz, where there is an elegant stone bridge across the Moselle.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye

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 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

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

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

The main arch is walled up to stop the projectiles that enfiladed it.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

While the soldiers were flocking through the narrow streets that flanked or enfiladed the walls, the native servants and coolies engaged on the defenses deserted en masse.

From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy

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

Trenches give much less protection against oblique or enfilade fire than they do against frontal fire, although the main purpose of 'bays' is to lessen the effect of enfilading.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

Still stronger than these were the traverses, which prevented an enfilading fire.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous

The Gunners, as usual, behaved with the utmost gallantry, but they too came under the same enfilading fire as the Dorsets and every man of the detachment except Captain Boscawen fell either killed or wounded.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W. Hamilton

So, also, if we can obtain an oblique or enfilading fire on his troops, it will be very destructive.

From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Francis J. (Francis James) Lippitt