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Foxhole vs Fougasse - What's the difference?

foxhole | fougasse |

As nouns the difference between foxhole and fougasse

is that foxhole is the burrow in the ground where a fox lives while fougasse is a type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of provence.

foxhole

Noun

(en noun)
  • The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.
  • (military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.
  • * 1962 : Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry (Columbia University Press), page 378:
  • The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes'” is absurd. ' Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.

    Synonyms

    * dugout * fighting hole * spider hole

    fougasse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.
  • An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.
  • Synonyms

    * (land mine) fougade