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escarpment
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synonyms: escarp, scarp ???
tags: [architecture] [geology]
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Definition:1. a nearly vertical slope outside the walls of a fortification2. an abrupt, steep slope of a cliff formed from erosion or a geologic fault
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...built by Chateau Gaillard, built by Richard Coeur-de-Lion in 1196. This great castle, with ditches and escarpments cut out of the solid rock, and extensive outworks, was completed in one year.
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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You climb up out of the river by granite steps cut into the escarpment and find yourself all of a sudden in the market square, which looks over a precipice.
Arnold Bennett. Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People (1913)
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But when I let my eyes glide over the charming pink globe of her cheeks, the gently curving surfaces of which ran up to expire beneath the first foothills of her piled black tresses which ran in undulating mountain chains, thrust out escarped ramparts and moulded the hollows of deep valleys,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3] The Guermantes Way
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