Meanings
nouncoupure (plural coupures)
plural coupures
- fortificationA passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
It will be observed here, that the coupure is not cut through the scarp revetment of the face of the bastion, although it is necessary for it to go through the thickness of the parapet
1860, John Thomas Hyde, Elementary Principles of Fortification
Origin
French, from couper (“to cut”).
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