PARAPET


Meaning of PARAPET in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As he reached the foot of the bleak stone steps, a single gunman opened fire from the parapet around the stairway.

Choir and audience wave to each other when the singing is over, some of the little boys leaning perilously over the parapets.

Corrigan watched the parapet above them.

I got up and went to the corner of the parapet , from where I could see in three directions.

I shifted unobtrusively, to crane a look over the parapet .

Once you put your head above the parapet these people clearly shot at it.

The double-decker smashed through a fence and ended up perched precariously on a bridge parapet at Brighouse, West Yorkshire.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.