revetment

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
    — Findlayson, C. E., sat in his trolley on a construction line that ran along one of the main revetments—the huge stone-faced banks that flared away north and south for three miles on either side of the river and permitted himself to think of the end.
  2. An ornamental facing, as on a common masonry wall, of marble, face brick, tiles, etc.
  3. An armoured building that provides protection against bombs.

词形变化

revetments plural

词源

From French revêtement, from Old French revestiment, from revestir (French revêtir), from Late Latin revestire (“to clothe again”), from Latin re- + vestire (“to clothe”).
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