avant-mur
Appearance
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.