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CORIDOR

Volume 6 · 88 words · 1815 Edition

or CORRIDOR, in Fortification, a road or way along the edge of the ditch, without-side; encompassing the whole fortification. The word comes from the Italian coridore, or the Spanish corridor.

It is also called the cover-way, because covered with a glacis, or esplanade, serving it as a parapet.—The corridor is about 20 yards broad.

CORRIDOR is also used in architecture for a gallery or long aisle around a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other, sometimes wholly inclosed, and sometimes open on one side.