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Перевод: parapet

[существительное]
парапет [архит.] ; перила ; бруствер

Тезаурус:

1. The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes, coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge, a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding.
2. He was inclined to feel giddy, too, and was obliged to support himself against the parapet in order to steady his troubled vision.
3. He peered over the parapet.
4. The track ahead crosses a natural bridge between sinister cavities without the protection of a parapet.
5. The way the parapet wall, which screens the attics, sweeps down in a bold curve is exceptionally pretty, and it really makes you want to stop and stare at the house as you glimpse it through trees and across the river meadow from the Dorchester to Godmanstone road.
6. Steadying himself, he made his way over the roof and on to the parapet that ran along the side of the building.
7. Then he heard the breaking of branches and a curse as one of the men leaped from the parapet on to the top of the bank, thirty feet above him.
8. This west front was thus transformed in the 1740s, with its handsome ashlar face and its dormer windows tucked behind the wide panelled parapet.
9. The bridge spans the watercourse descending from Coire Mhic Nobuil in a very attractive setting, well seen from the parapet.
10. In order to "contain" the higher profile of the new, glazed aisle roof, the wall was raised slightly with new ironstone masonry, producing a parapet wall under a new sloping stone coping.
11. Jock was on his feet and leaning on the parapet of the trench.
12. Barbecue time late on a Sunday night on the balcony, and another Embassy staffer from the floor above leaning over his parapet and complaining about the smoke.
13. Second Lieutenant Kenneth Keith of the Gordon Highlanders looked over the parapet of his trench on Christmas Eve and was astonished to see one of his soldiers talking to a German soldier in No Man's Land.