redoubt
noun/rɪˈdaʊt/
/rɪˈdaʊt/
- (literary) a place or situation in which somebody/something is protected when they are being attacked or threatened
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- a small building from which soldiers can fight and defend themselves
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French redoute, from obsolete Italian ridotta and medieval Latin reductus ‘refuge’, from Latin reducere ‘withdraw’. The -b- was added by association with doubt.
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