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   redoubt

   /rɪˈdaʊt/

   noun

   • 1. a temporary or supplementary fortification, typically square or polygonal and without flanking defences: "the British stormed the rebel redoubt"

   Word Origin early 17th century: 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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