Crossword-Solution: GLACIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Glacis | n. | A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin). |
We have 11 clues for the answer “GLACIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A gradual slope. | 1 answer |
| BANK sloping down from fortified site | 1 answer |
| DEFENSIVE slope | 1 answer |
| Fort embankment | 1 answer |
| SLOPE of fortification | 1 answer |
| GENTLE slope | 2 answers |
| Fortification slope | 3 answers |
| Acclivity | 17 answers |
| gradient | 47 answers |
| Fortification | 56 answers |
| Ascent | 62 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with GLACIS (5)
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.
Nature, you would say, had here desired to imitate the works of man; for the slope was even, like the glacis of a fort, and the cliffs of a constant height, like the ramparts of a city.
Duncan had stood in a musing attitude, contemplating this scene a few minutes, when his eyes were directed to the glacis in front of the sally-port already mentioned, by the sounds of approaching footsteps.
This glacis, for such in fact was its military uses, might have covered a hundred acres; but with it every sign of civilization ceased.
Seen from the Promenade, this magnificent relic of the Middle Ages, wrapped in its ivy mantle, adorned with its square or rounded towers, in either of which a whole regiment could be quartered,--the castle, the town, and the rock, protected by walls with sheer surfaces, or by the glacis of the fortifications, form a huge horseshoe, lined with precipices, on which the Bretons have, in course of ages, cut various narrow footways.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–2004).