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Definition of "enfilades" []

  • Plural form of enfilade. (noun)
  • Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enfilade. (verb)

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Use "enfilades" in a sentence
  • "The fashionable new hotels particuliers , as private homes were called—many of which were built near the city's financial hub—transformed the traditional, sequential arrangements or enfilades of stately, public rooms into intimate, functional spaces that allowed for comforts and privacy unknown to earlier generations."
  • "Houses are all corners and enfilades...and you can shoot a lot easier with a handgun w/o exposing much of you to the bad guys fire."
  • "To complete the view, the eye enfilades Princes Street, black with traffic, and has a broad look over the valley between the Old Town and the New: here, full of railway trains and stepped over by the high North Bridge upon its many columns, and there, green with trees and gardens."
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