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Parados   Listen
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parados  n.  (pl. paradoses)  (Fort.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.






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"Parados" Quotes from Famous Books



... the rebound from panic had made him extra courageous. He crawled forward, an inch at a time, taking no sort of risk, and presently found himself looking at the parados of a trench. Then he lay quiet to think ...
— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... marksman of A Company jumped across the floor of the trench to the door of the dug-out with surprising alacrity, as the merry laughing face of Dennis Dashwood showed in the square hole in the wall of the parados. ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry



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