avant-mur
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
avant (“before”) + mur (“wall”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
avant-mur m (plural avant-murs)
- (architecture, dated) a wall erected in front of another wall
- (military, dated) the outer part of a fortification
Further reading[edit]
- “avant-mur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.