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Example sentences for "fortified town"

  • IV-19] A few leagues west of the city are the ruins of Mixco, a fortified town of the natives down to the time of the conquest, mentioned by several authorities but described by none.

  • Footnote 97: Fortified town of Lorraine, on the Moselle.

  • Footnote 89: Fortified town of France, near the Belgian frontier, 66 miles south-east of Calais.

  • A`DEN (42), a fortified town on a peninsula in British territory S.

  • Defn: A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

  • Defn: A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

  • A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town.

  • Abrantes, which occupies the crest of a hill covered with olive woods, gardens and vines, is a fortified town, with a thriving trade in fruit, olive oil and grain.

  • This enormous establishment covers at least 4 acres of ground, and contains so many separate buildings within its massive walls that it resembles a fortified town.

  • A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

  • A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

  • A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.

  • An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.

  • A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

  • Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.

  • The colony had a centre in a fortified town, or it consisted almost exclusively of dwellers in one.

  • But it is absolutely clear that even in these cases a burh was an enclosure and not a tump; and it is equally clear from the general use of the word that its main meaning was a fortified town.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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