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revetment en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ɹɪˈvɛt.mənt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A layer of stone, concrete, or other hard material supporting the side of an embankment.
   • 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; [...]. 1964 December, Mark Bourne, “The rejuvenation of the Cambrian line”, in Modern Railways, page 390:
   • 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. 1898, Rudyard Kipling, “The Bridge-Builders”, in The Day's Work:
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.

Forms

Translations (2)

id revetmen (layer of hard material supporting the side of an embankment) · de Deckwerk (layer of hard material supporting the side of an embankment)