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glacis

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɡleɪsɪs/
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/ˈɡleɪsɪs/ · /ˈɡlæsi/

Definition of glacis

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A gentle incline.
    “The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of the sand glacis, swiftly fleets back again, and is met and buried by the next breaker.”
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noun

  1. A gentle incline.
    “The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of the sand glacis, swiftly fleets back again, and is met and buried by the next breaker.”
  2. A gentle incline.
  3. (also, figuratively)A gentle incline.
    “[T]ook his place with solemn / Air 'midst the rest, who kept their valiant faces / And levelled weapons still against the glacis.”
    “[T]heir hearts had failed them at the silence and the blaze of lighted ships from end to end of the harbour, with eerie beams of the searchlights revealing the bleakness of the glacis they would have to cross.”
  4. A gentle incline.
  5. A gentle incline.

name

  1. An administrative district of Seychelles.

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Etymology

Borrowed from French glacis (“slippery surface”), derived from Old French glacier (“to glide; freeze”), the former from Latin glaciāre (“to freeze”), from glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin. Cognates * Medieval Latin glatia (“incline in front of a fortification”)

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