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?