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camouflet
[ kam-uh-fley, kam-uh-fley ]
noun
- an underground explosion of a bomb or mine that does not break the surface, but leaves an enclosed cavity of gas and smoke.
- the pocket formed by such an explosion.
- the bomb or mine so exploded and causing such a pocket.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of camouflet1
1830–40; < French: literally, smoke blown in someone's face as a practical joke, Middle French chault moufflet, equivalent to chault hot (< Latin calidus ) + moufflet presumably “puff, breath”; compare Walloon dial. moufler to puff up the cheeks; 1st syllable probably conformed to the expressive formative ca- ( cabbage 1 )
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Example Sentences
This forms a small camouflet chamber by compressing the earth around it.
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Working parties were heavy, and on one occasion the Bosche blew a camouflet while work was in progress.
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The term camouflet is applied to a mine used to suffocate the enemy's miner, without producing an explosion.
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We had five men buried by a camouflet—they began at once to recover the bodies.
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When an enemy mine is being dug, a camouflet destroys it before completion.
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