fougade

English

Noun

fougade (plural fougades)

  1. (military, historical) A kind of land mine; a fougasse.
    • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, I.17:
      'Twas not dumb chance, that, to discover the Fougade or Powder-plot, contrived a miscarriage in the Letter.
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