Ha-haA retaining wall sunk into a ditch in a landscape garden or park, used to make a barrier without disrupting the view.HagioscopeAn aperture in a wall or through a pier in a church or chapel, usually to allow a view of an altar.
ha-haA Ha-Ha is a sunk wall with a ditch outside, used so that the garden boundary is not visible from within.
Ha-Ha
- a trench, with one side vertical, the other gently sloping, a method of containing livestock, which would be invisible from beyond the vertical side.
bastion a projecting part of a rampart or other fortification; in landscape gardening, a bastion is a projecting section of the ha-ha.
 See also: Scape, Hall, Retaining Wall, Tower, Castle
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