Demi-lune, in Fortification, is the name formerly given to the work now called a Ravelin (q.v.). See FORTIFICATION.
Demi-lune
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 745
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Demi-lune, in Fortification, is the name formerly given to the work now called a Ravelin (q.v.). See FORTIFICATION.