Parados

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈpaɹədÉ’s/

Origin

From French parados.

Full definition of parados

Noun

1. (military) An embankment built to protect the rear of a position from enemy attack. from 19th c.
• 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 309:He stood up on the step; and then they both swerved, ducking quickly as something ripped up the air between them, flicked a stone from the 'parados, and sang, like the vibration of a tense wire, into the air behind them.----