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lunette

/loo-net/US // luˈnɛt //UK // (luːˈnɛt) //

小月球,月球仪,小月牙儿,小月饼

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various objects or spaces of crescentlike or semicircular outline or section.
    • : Architecture. an area enframed by an arch or vault.
    • : a painting, sculpture, or window filling such an area.
    • : Fortification. a work consisting of a salient angle with two flanks and an open gorge.
    • : Ordnance. a towing ring in the trail plate of a towed vehicle, as a gun carriage.
    • : Ecclesiastical. Luna.

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Examples

  • Garland's brigade, advancing between the citadel and the first lunette, reached the city with heavy loss.

  • An attempt Assault of Monterey on the second lunette failed with heavy loss to the Americans.

  • The situation of the chapel prompted us to look over the ground for traces of a lunette bastion on the counterscarp.

  • The fresco in the lunette is by Michele di Ridolfo Ghirlandaio.

  • These soon silenced its guns, and the lunette was abandoned by the garrison.