Fosse Definition

fäs, fôs
noun
A ditch or moat, esp. one used in fortifications.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Fosse

Noun

Singular:
fosse
Plural:
fosses

Origin of Fosse

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin fossa fossa1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via Old French, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).

    From Wiktionary

Fosse Sentence Examples

  • The fosse has been planted, and part of it used as an experimental garden.

  • A small Romano-British town or village was situated here, on the road which runs from Derby and Wall, near Lichfield, to join the Fosse Way near Cirencester.

  • Le Maistre (de Sacy), and after a month in the Bastille was exiled to his estate of Fosse.

  • Both the eastern and the western part of the city were formerly enclosed by brick walls, with large round towers at the principal angles and smaller towers intervening at shorter distances, the whole surrounded by a deep fosse.

  • The inner city, or Vienna proper, was formerly separated from the other districts by a circle of fortifications, consisting of a rampart, fosse and glacis.

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Words Starting With

FFOFOS

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