In military fortification, a contramure, or countermure, is a wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [1]
The term was also used to refer to an outer wall, built around the wall of a city. [2]
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Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1st ed.). James and John Knapton, et al.
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