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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENCEINTE (See also:Lat. in, within, cinctus, girdled; to be distinguished from the word meaning " pregnant," from in, not, and cinctus, i.e. with See also:girdle loosened)  , a See also:French See also:term used technically in fortification for the inner See also:ring of fortifications surrounding a See also:town . Strictly the term was applied to the continuous See also:line of bastions and curtains forming the " See also:body of the See also:place," this last expression being often used as synonymous with See also:enceinte . The outworks, however, See also:close to the enceinte were not considered as forming See also:part of it . In See also:modern fortification the enceinte is usually simply the innermost continuous line of fortifications . In See also:architecture generally an enceinte is the close or See also:precinct of a See also:cathedral, See also:abbey, See also:castle, &c .

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