Definition of "fosses" [fosses]

• Plural form of foss. (noun)
• Plural form of fosse. (noun)

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• "We went up to the citadel, which crowns the hill, and is composed of an agglomeration of granite walls, fosses, and casemates, mounds, ditches, barracks, and water-tanks."
• "All the fortifications were strengthened; the fosses carefully filled with spikes and water; large stones placed over the gates, convenient to tumble on the heads of the assaulting parties; and caldrons prepared, with furnaces to melt up pitch, brimstone, boiling oil, &c., wherewith hospitably to receive them."
• "Most of the bones came from the fosses aux pauvres, the great common graves of the poor in the center of the atrium."