Pronounced: DAM-zuhn (alt: DAM-suhn), noun
Notes: I have run across this word in stories, but I actually didn’t know what it meant
Yesterday’s word
The word terreplein is “the level space behind a parapet of a rampart where guns are mounted”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late-1500s
Background / Comments
As I noted, the word sounds familiar, but I cannot place it. It came from Middle French, and to there from the Old Italian word terrapieno, which came from the Medieval Latin phrase terra plenus (filled with earth).
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