Definition of "defilades" [defilades]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of defilade. (verb)

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• "Terrain irregularities (such as defilades or mounds) provide initial fortifications."
• "Rocks lay everywhere, and each hill revealed a new landscape of secret inclines and defilades, and it was all brown-gray, coated with dust or grit."
• "Presumably some feature of the ground defilades one part, for the enemy cannot see into the valley, although, were they only"