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redoubt

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1. redoubt - Noun

2. redoubt - Verb

Meaning

A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory.

In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of Ravelin.

To stand in dread of; to regard with fear; to dread.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Despite these rebellions, the Criollo oligarchy in Perú remained mostly Spanish loyalist, which accounts for the fact that the Viceroyalty of Peru became the last redoubt of the Spanish dominion in South America. Source: Internet

During this time, Baum's men constructed a small redoubt at the crest of the hill and hoped that the weather would prevent the Americans from attacking before reinforcements arrived. Source: Internet

As his family's business interests shrink and his political supporters decamp, José Eduardo dos Santos is set to lose the last redoubt of the empire he built over 38 years – the presidency of the ruling Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola. Source: Internet

Carl Lutz, a lifesaving Swiss diplomat, had turned the building into a redoubt issuing Schutzbriefe—letters of protection from a neutral government. Source: Internet

Meanwhile, fearing that its headquarters in Basel could be destroyed, Basler built a chalet complex in the redoubt in Saanen near Gstaad, which was guarded by the Swiss army. Source: Internet

In the five years I contributed local-history stories to the Redoubt Reporter, I was given and lent photographs and books and maps and trinkets to illuminate and illustrate the past. Source: Internet

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