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.

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

For the girls who are enceinte, that "sack" will be O.K., and the rest of us will just cinch in the side seams and add a swishy cummerbund.

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