contravallation
(en)
a series of works confronting the walls of an invested place to isolate the defenders and safeguard the besiegers against sallies
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contravallation
The critic straightened up, unprepared for this sally, without time to recover his own walls, he withdrew instantly behind contravallations of mistrust.
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