glacis

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GLA'CIS, noun In building, or gardening, an easy, insensible slope. 1. In fortification, a sloping bank; that mass of earth which serves as a parapet to the covered way, having an easy slope or declivity towards the champaign or field.
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