Examples of “glacis” in a Sentence

noun A gentle slope, sometimes formed naturally by material being deposited or worn away.

• The path followed a long glacis down toward the river.
• Geologists studied the glacis at the foot of the hill.
• Rain had smoothed the glacis over many years.

noun A gentle slope built in front of a fort so that attackers are exposed to defensive fire while the fort itself is shielded from cannon fire.

• Attackers crossing the glacis were fully visible to the defenders above.
• The old fortress still has its glacis largely intact.
• Cannon fire from the walls swept across the glacis.