1. enfilade - Noun
2. enfilade - Verb
A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.
To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room. James Fenton