vamure

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A form of vauntmure — A false wall raised in front of the main wall as a fortification.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounvamure (plural vamures)

plural vamures

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of vauntmure.

    So many ladders to the earth they threw, / That well they seem'd a mount thereof to make, // Or else some vamure fit to save the town, / Instead of that the Christians late beat down.

    1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, lxiv
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