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nounrampire (plural rampires)
plural rampires
- archaicA rampart.
The Trojans round the place a rampire cast.
1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
verbrampire (third-person singular simple present rampires, present participle rampiring, simple past and past participle rampired)
present singular third person rampires · participle present rampiring · participle past rampired · past rampired
- archaictransitiveTo fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart.
rampired walls of gold
1864, Robert Browning, Abt Vogler1 more example
Expect ye more walls at your backs? towns rampir'd here are none
[1611?], Homer, “Book XV”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC
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