glacis
/ˈɡleɪsɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.79 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "I think, quoth Corporal Trim, with humble submission to your Honour’s better judgment,——that these ravelins, bastions, curtins, and hornworks, make but a poor, contemptible, fiddle-faddle piece of work of it here upon paper, compared to what your Honour and I could make of it were we in the country by ourselves, and had but a rood, or a rood and a half of ground to do what we pleased with: As summer is coming on, continued Trim, your Honour might sit out of doors, and give me the nography—(Call it ichnography, quoth my uncle,)——of the town or citadel, your Honour was pleased to sit down before,—and I will be shot by your Honour upon the glacis of it, if I did not fortify it to your Honour’s mind."
- "[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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡleɪsɪs/
- British English: /ˈɡleɪsɪs/