parados

The media here are constantly reminding us of the 5 million 'parados' or unemployed.

The parados protected the soldier's back from shells falling behind the trench.

The embanked rear lip of the trench was called the parados.

Out of sight, beyond the parados, were heard the first notes of the flute playing in the chorus.

Usually the first choral song of the drama, the parados typically follows the play's prologue.

The casemates formed a longitudinal parados protecting the ramparts from reverse fire.

The southern parados was vaulted in Roman times, the northern has been left in its original open-air state.

Paradise derives from the French parados which is a mound behind a fortified place to secure from reverse attack or fire.

Parapets and parados collapsed wholesale.

Altar de los días parados.

Já estamos parados na porta de sinhô Conselheiro.

Some clambered over the parados and some even over the parapet preferring the dangers of No Man's Land to this other soul-searing menace.

My Dear Friend, Here am I, sheltered from the sun by the parados of a trench behind a blockhouse; reading 'The Bible in Spain.'

Eso me hace falta, un poco de compromiso con los temas, como saber de antemano dónde es que están parados"

Hugging the parados, messengers carried the word in both directions and presently periscopes were leveled above the parados and keen eyes were searching out the traitor.

The guard room and gateway were demolished together with the stables, sling wagon shed, movable armament shed, vehicle shed and portions of the parados before an injunction prevented further damage.

In Peace the rhythm is trochaic but the Chorus enters joyfully and its only argument with the protagonist is over its inability to stop dancing (299-345), an inventive use of a conventional parados.

The top two or three feet of the parapet and the parados (the rear side of the trench) would consist of a thick line of sandbags to absorb any bullets or shell fragments.

The U.S. sergeant peered ever so cautiously over the parados at the rear of the trench, treating it as if it were the parapet at the front, which, from his point of view, it was.

The principal battery, known as the caserne sous le parados (barracks under the entrance) is composed of gun chambers all oriented opening on the northeastern facade, with arched vaults expressed on the main wall as blind arches.

The first wave moved towards the east side of the salient, then from there to the western face, as the second wave jumped over the trench and ran along the parados, until they saw Germans in the trench near the apex.

On 16 September 1916 at Courcelette, France, during a bombing attack, Private Kerr was acting as bayonet man and noting that bombs were running short, he ran along the parados under heavy fire until he was in close contact with the enemy when he opened fire at point-blank range, inflicting heavy losses.

Initially, both the parapet and parados of the trench were built in this way, but a later technique was to dispense with the parados for much of the trench line, thus exposing the rear of the trench to fire from the reserve line in case the front was breached.