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PARADOS (Fr. = back cover)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 752 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARADOS (Fr. = back cover)

PARADOS (Fr. = back See also:
COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)
cover) , a See also:

TERM

term used in fortification, expressing a See also:

WORK

work the purpose of which is to See also:

COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover the defenders of a See also:

LINE

line of trenches or See also:

PARAPET (Ital. parapetto, Fr. parapet, from para, imperative of Ital. porare, to cover, defend, and petto, breast, Lat. pectus; the German word is Brustwehr)

parapet from See also:

REVERSE

reverse See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire, i.e. fire from the See also:

REAR

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