Breastworks vs Redoubt - What's the difference?
breastworks | redoubt |
A small, temporary, military fortification.
A reinforced refuge; a fort.
A place of safety or refuge.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
As nouns the difference between breastworks and redoubt
is that breastworks is while redoubt is a small, temporary, military fortification.As a verb redoubt is
(archaic) to dread.redoubt
English
(wikipedia redoubt)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.