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parapet
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plural parapets
plural parapets
Learner's definition of PARAPET
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: a low wall at the edge of a platform, roof, or bridge女儿墙；矮护墙；胸墙
- The invaders fired arrows over the castle's parapet.入侵者将箭射过城堡胸墙。
put/stick/raise your head above the parapet
British, informal : to do or say something you think is important even though it may have bad results冒险说出（或做）重要事情
- I'll put my head above the parapet to defend him.我将挺身而出为他辩护。
Example Sentences
The invaders fired arrows over the castle's parapet.
Recent Examples on the Web Near the town line with Windsor, Fuller Brush’s distinctive tower with Gothic and Tudor arched openings crowned with corner turrets and a parapet is a familiar site to motorists on I-91. 
Hartford Courant, 27 July 2022 The project includes work on the expansion joints, approach pavement and parapet transition. Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 At first there wasn’t much to see — just a hunched, gray form perched on the parapet, Batman-style, or a crossbow silhouette spiraling high above. Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 Video footage showed the lawyer falling over a low concrete parapet at the back of the platform at the Judiciary Square station at about 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2013, landing in a trench-like pit eight feet below. Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022 See More
Hartford Courant, 27 July 2022 The project includes work on the expansion joints, approach pavement and parapet transition. Lexi Whitehead, The Enquirer, 6 June 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 At first there wasn’t much to see — just a hunched, gray form perched on the parapet, Batman-style, or a crossbow silhouette spiraling high above. Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 The new bridge will match the look of the one on 68th Street, with more modern piers, a railing and the street name set into the parapet. Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Feb. 2022 Video footage showed the lawyer falling over a low concrete parapet at the back of the platform at the Judiciary Square station at about 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 19, 2013, landing in a trench-like pit eight feet below. Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from Middle French & Italian; Middle French parapete, parapet, borrowed from Italian parapetto, from para "(it) shields, protects" (3rd singular present of parare "to prepare, adorn, avert, shield") + petto "breast, chest," going back to Latin pector-, pectus — more at parry, pectoral entry 2
First Known Use
1590, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of parapet was in 1590 Phrases Containing parapet
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