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parados

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parados
1. An entrance to the orchestra, 1 of a Greek theater.
2. Earthworks behind a fortified place.
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At first they sought to discover his location in No Man's Land; but when an officer looking over the parapet through a periscope was struck full in the back of the head with a rifle bullet which passed through his skull and fell to the bottom of the trench they realized that it was beyond the parados rather than the parapet that they should search.
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