What's the difference between fougasse and foxhole?

Fougasse


Definition:

  • (n.) A small mine, in the form of a well sunk from the surface of the ground, charged with explosive and projectiles. It is made in a position likely to be occupied by the enemy.

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Foxhole


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were still constructing it when I was there, so they were digging, and then sleeping at night in the back, in a foxhole, which could only fit three or four people at a time.
  • (2) We need to stop, start digging foxholes, and go on the economic offensive."
  • (3) It was read by troops in the foxholes of North Africa.
  • (4) The hazards from blast waves entering open structures are described with criteria for personnel located in a standard two-man open foxhole.
  • (5) On his first exploratory trip to Vietnam in the spring of 1967, Terry today concedes that he sensed "democracy in the foxhole - 'same mud, same blood'."
  • (6) He is not alone in sensing the "Pope Francis effect" has given many Catholics the courage to clamber out of their foxholes.
  • (7) As the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas, an opponent of Keynes, admitted in 2008: “I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole.” Having said this, Keynes’s theory of “underemployment” equilibrium is no longer accepted by most economists and policymakers.
  • (8) Is another soldier, also asleep or dead, stowed in the crypt-like foxhole behind him?

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