terreplein
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terreplein
An earth embankment, flattened at the top.
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By contrast, remnants (foundations) of the adjacent segment of the old north wall or any of its parts may be difficult to access, buried as they are at least twice over (a) under the seventeenth-century
terreplein fill (1627-44) of the Portuguese north-west blunt-angle bastion (Great Bastion [Eng.
1644, when a Muslim detachment intent on seizing the Castelo velho had to make its way down from the Baluarte do Cangrejo to the unfinished
terreplein using their cloaks tied into a rope ladder).
The shape of the bastions, which are key architectural elements, permitted a cannon on their decks (
terrepleins) to fire in all directions.
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