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enceinte
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What does enceinte mean?
adjective
- Pregnant.
noun
- An enclosure.
- The line of works forming the main enclosure of a fortress.
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noun
- The area or town enclosed by a line of fortification.
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I have known of instances where tight lacing for the ballroom has caused the death of enceinte women.
Inside the ENCEINTE he picked up numerous fragments of ornamented pottery, with polished hatchets, shells, and a good many bones of animals.
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As enceinte, the French word meaning pregnant, signifies, the prospective mother should be unbound.
He simply walked; he walked straight before him, following the river, till he got out of the enceinte of Paris.
He had seduced, it was said, a young girl named Lescure, who became enceinte, afterwards dying from an abortion which Meilhan was accused of having procured.