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caponiers

caponiers is the plural of caponier.

Meaning of caponier

Noun

caponier (plural caponiers)

  1. (historical) A work made across or in a ditch, to protect it from the enemy (as fire from it could cover the ditch), or to serve as a covered passageway (e.g. to outworks).

Questions about caponiers

What is caponiers the plural of?
Caponiers is the plural of caponier.

Words near caponiers in the dictionary

  1. caponette
  2. caponettes
  3. caponier
  4. caponiere
  5. caponieres
  6. caponiers
  7. Caponigro
  8. Caponigros
  9. caponiid
  10. caponiids
  11. caponing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caponiers (page history and authors); caponier (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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