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Webster 1913 Edition

(păr′ȧ-dŏs)

Noun.

;

pl.

Paradoses

(păr′ȧ-dŏs-ĕz)

[F., fr.

parer

to defend +

dos

back, L.

dorsum

(Fort.)

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.

Farrow.

parados ‎(plural parados or paradoses)

(military) An embankment built to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack. [from 19th c.]
- 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 309:
  He stood up on the step; and then they both swerved, ducking quickly as something ripped up the air between them, flicked a stone from the 'parados, and sang, like the vibration of a tense wire, into the air behind them.

parados

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