Glossary entry (derived from question below)
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French term
caponnière
French to English
Other
Military / Defense
MILITARY
militaire, fortifications pendant la guerre.
"Ce fossé était défendu par des caponnières simples ou doubles qui le prenaient en enfilade"
"Ce fossé était défendu par des caponnières simples ou doubles qui le prenaient en enfilade"
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +5 | caponier, caponiere, kaponier |
Francis MARC
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| 5 | Francis is right, and the spelling varies |
Christopher Crockett
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caponier, caponiere, kaponier
Termium (explications):
Subject Field(s)
– Architectural Drafting and Tools
– Fences and Enclosures
– Urban Integration
Subject Field(s)
– Dessin architectural et instruments
– Enceintes et clôtures
– Intégration urbaine
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caponnière Source CORRECT
DEF – in fortification, is a
passage made from one work to
another, of 10 or 12 feet wide,
and about 5 feet deep, covered
on each side by a parapet,
terminating in a glacis.
Sometimes they are covered
with planks and earth. Source
DEF – Chemin qui, dans une
enceinte fortifiée, traverse le
fossé à sec et conduit à une
demi-lune. Sour
Subject Field(s)
– Architectural Drafting and Tools
– Fences and Enclosures
– Urban Integration
Subject Field(s)
– Dessin architectural et instruments
– Enceintes et clôtures
– Intégration urbaine
caponier Source CORRECT
caponiere Source CORRECT
kaponier Source CORRECT
caponnière Source CORRECT
caponnière Source CORRECT
DEF – in fortification, is a
passage made from one work to
another, of 10 or 12 feet wide,
and about 5 feet deep, covered
on each side by a parapet,
terminating in a glacis.
Sometimes they are covered
with planks and earth. Source
DEF – Chemin qui, dans une
enceinte fortifiée, traverse le
fossé à sec et conduit à une
demi-lune. Sour
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Christopher Crockett
Native in English
M.A., Ph.D. Historian/Art Historian
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English
French term (edited):
caponni�re
Francis is right, and the spelling varies
Here's the whole OED entry:
caponier
caponier kæponi<e>.r. Also caponiere, caponnière, kaponier. [a. Fr; caponnière, ad. Sp. caponera in same sense; orig. a capon-cote or mews, f. capon capon. Many modern writers have used the French form. ]
`A covered passage across the ditch of a fortified place, for the purpose either of sheltering communication with outworks or of affording a flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands' (Stocqueler Mil. Dict. 1853).
1683 Lond. Gaz. No. 1858/6 A Retrenchment..which we still maintain, to cover the Caponiers we have in the Ditch.
1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Caponniere.
1772 Simes Mil. Guide, Caponier.
1830 E. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sc., Caponière.
1863 Kinglake Crimea (1877) III. v. 364 Of its eight angles, every other one was supplied with a little bastion or caponiere.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 138/2 Kaponiers are large casemated masonry buildings for the defence of the ditches of permanent works on the polygonal system.
1882 St. James's Gaz. 6 Feb., Strong caponiers for flanking the ditches.
caponier
caponier kæponi<e>.r. Also caponiere, caponnière, kaponier. [a. Fr; caponnière, ad. Sp. caponera in same sense; orig. a capon-cote or mews, f. capon capon. Many modern writers have used the French form. ]
`A covered passage across the ditch of a fortified place, for the purpose either of sheltering communication with outworks or of affording a flanking fire to the ditch in which it stands' (Stocqueler Mil. Dict. 1853).
1683 Lond. Gaz. No. 1858/6 A Retrenchment..which we still maintain, to cover the Caponiers we have in the Ditch.
1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Caponniere.
1772 Simes Mil. Guide, Caponier.
1830 E. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sc., Caponière.
1863 Kinglake Crimea (1877) III. v. 364 Of its eight angles, every other one was supplied with a little bastion or caponiere.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 138/2 Kaponiers are large casemated masonry buildings for the defence of the ditches of permanent works on the polygonal system.
1882 St. James's Gaz. 6 Feb., Strong caponiers for flanking the ditches.
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