Enfilade - The French system of aligning internal doors in a sequence so that a vista is obtained through a series of rooms when all the doors are open. They are usually placed close to the windows. The arrangement was introduced c.
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Connecting suites of rooms aligned along a single axis, an arrangement popular in Rococo architecture. Examples Versailles, Sans Souci
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Enfilade
- a suite of rooms, which open into each other in a continuous sequence.
- fire from, for example, a bastion which is capable of raking along an advancing line of attackers, thereby inflicting maximum casualties. See fortification .
Enfilade: Defensive artillery was fired from the flank of a work and directed along or across another, for example; from the salient of a bastion across the faces of an adjoining bastions or the curtain wall in between.
e. A defensive barrier across a rampart or trench, as a bank of earth thrown up to protect against enfilade fire.
4. Something that obstructs and thwarts; an obstacle.
Enceinte a fortified enclosure Enceinte - The enclosure or fortified area of a castle.
Enclosure - castle courtyard.
Enfilade - describing the arrangement of Arrow Loops or Gun Ports whereby one could achieve a cross-fire and ...
Encaustic tilesEarthenware tiles fired with a pattern and glaze.En d(French; lit. in error): Stone laid against the bed.EnfiladeRooms in a formal series, usually with all the doorways on axis.Engaged column ...
Its façades combine Lucas von Hildebrandt's love of decoration with French-style classical orders in two superimposed stories; its interior features the famous Austrian "imperial staircase", but also a French-type enfilade of rooms on the garden ...
 See also: Architecture, Tower, Doorway, Renaissance, House
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