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antemuralis

antemuralis , lying in front of a wall. b (sb. n.) outer wall, outwork, barbican. c (fig.). cum ‥ vix ~es civitatis domos fugiendo liquissent G. Steph. I 62.  b palatium regium ‥ cum ~i et propugnaculis W. Fitzst. Thom. prol. 5; vidi ‥ nucem grandem in horto juxta ‥ ~ia Gerv. Tilb. III 11; s1099 ut ‥ ~ibus confractis cogerent defensores retroire M. Par. Min. I 139; in civitate Tholose ‥ vidi ~ia [gl.barbycons], ‥ turres, propungnacula Garl. Dict. 130; s1295 fracto ~i civitatis [Burdegale] suburbium intraverunt Flor. Hist. III 285; 1380 pro opere ‥ ~is quod dicitur barvicane castri de Strivelyn ExchScot 654; hoc ~e, a †harchcame[l. barbicane] WW.  c s1219 est Damiata ‥ ~e tocius Egypti Trevet 205; s1455 illa municio [sc. dux Gloucestrie] ‥ que ‥ fuit ei [sc. regi] alter murus et eciam ~e Reg. Whet. I 179.

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