rasante
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French rasant, present participle of raser (“to graze”).
Adjective
rasante (comparative more rasante, superlative most rasante)
- (military, historical) Sweeping; grazing; applied to a style of fortification in which the command of the works over each other, and over the country, is kept very low, so that the shot may more effectually sweep or graze the ground before them.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of H. L. Scott to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rasante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
French
Adjective
rasante
German
Adjective
rasante
- inflection of rasant:
Italian
Verb
rasante
Anagrams
Spanish
Adjective
rasante m or f (masculine and feminine plural rasantes)
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