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prettygoodwordparados - n., an embankment behind a trench or fortification to protect soldiers from a rear attack.
I keep thinking it's part of the altar furniture of a church -- but maybe that's just me. From French, from parer, to defend + dos, back (from Latin, dorsum, from whence dorsal).
---L.
I keep thinking it's part of the altar furniture of a church -- but maybe that's just me. From French, from parer, to defend + dos, back (from Latin, dorsum, from whence dorsal).
---L.
