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French: caponnière

English translation: caponnier







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French term or phrase:caponnière
English translation:caponnier
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Military / Defense / MILITARY
French term or phrase: caponnière
militaire, fortifications pendant la guerre.
\"Ce fossé était défendu par des caponnières simples ou doubles qui le prenaient en enfilade\"
jordalis
France
caponier, caponiere, kaponier
Explanation:
Termium (explications):
Subject Field(s)
  – Architectural Drafting and Tools
  – Fences and Enclosures
  – Urban Integration
Subject Field(s)
  – Dessin architectural et instruments
  – Enceintes et clôtures
  – Intégration urbaine
 
caponier Source CORRECT

caponiere Source CORRECT

kaponier Source CORRECT

caponnière Source CORRECT

caponnière Source CORRECT

DEF – in fortification, is a
passage made from one work to
another, of 10 or 12 feet wide,
and about 5 feet deep, covered
on each side by a parapet,
terminating in a glacis.
Sometimes they are covered
with planks and earth. Source

DEF – Chemin qui, dans une
enceinte fortifiée, traverse le
fossé à sec et conduit à une
demi-lune. Sour
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Francis MARC
Lithuania
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3 +5caponier, caponiere, kaponier
Francis MARC
5Francis is right, and the spelling varies
Christopher Crockett


  

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caponier, caponiere, kaponier

Explanation:
Termium (explications):
Subject Field(s)
  – Architectural Drafting and Tools
  – Fences and Enclosures
  – Urban Integration
Subject Field(s)
  – Dessin architectural et instruments
  – Enceintes et clôtures
  – Intégration urbaine
 
caponier Source CORRECT

caponiere Source CORRECT

kaponier Source CORRECT

caponnière Source CORRECT

caponnière Source CORRECT

DEF – in fortification, is a
passage made from one work to
another, of 10 or 12 feet wide,
and about 5 feet deep, covered
on each side by a parapet,
terminating in a glacis.
Sometimes they are covered
with planks and earth. Source

DEF – Chemin qui, dans une
enceinte fortifiée, traverse le
fossé à sec et conduit à une
demi-lune. Sour

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks and sorry for taking so long to reply !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Gilbert Liotard: -
4 mins

agree Parrot: http://www.thissen-laboratories.com/forts/index.php3?p=109&c...
56 mins

agree Jean-Luc Dumont: simple or double caponiers
1 hr

agree bharg
5 hrs

agree Christopher Crockett: Yes, it's a highly technical term, and the French is used in English, according to the OED.
16 hrs
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Francis is right, and the spelling varies

Explanation:
Here's the whole OED entry:

caponier
caponier kæponi<e>.r. Also caponiere, caponnière, kaponier. [a. Fr; caponnière, ad. Sp. caponera in same sense; orig. a capon-cote or mews, f. capon capon. Many modern writers have used the French form. ]
`A covered passage across the ditch of a fortified place, for the purpose either of sheltering communication with outworks or of affording a flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands' (Stocqueler Mil. Dict. 1853).

1683 Lond. Gaz. No. 1858/6 A Retrenchment..which we still maintain, to cover the Caponiers we have in the Ditch.

1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Caponniere.

1772 Simes Mil. Guide, Caponier.

1830 E. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sc., Caponière.

1863 Kinglake Crimea (1877) III. v. 364 Of its eight angles, every other one was supplied with a little bastion or caponiere.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 138/2 Kaponiers are large casemated masonry buildings for the defence of the ditches of permanent works on the polygonal system.

1882 St. James's Gaz. 6 Feb., Strong caponiers for flanking the ditches.

Christopher Crockett
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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