revetment

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English

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rock armour revetment
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Etymology

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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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Noun

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revetment (plural revetments)

  1. A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
    • 1898, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bridge-Builders”, in The Day's Work:
      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.
    • 1964 December, Mark Bourne, “The rejuvenation of the Cambrian line”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
      A 200-ton rockfall recently blocked the Machynlleth sidings, trapping several locomotives; a rock-slip on the approach embankment to Talerddig required expensive revetting last year; and on the coastal section to Barmouth an 80 foot-high stone revetment was completed some time ago at Friog; [...].
  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.

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