Maginot

[ mazh-uh-noh; French ma-zhee-noh ]

noun

1. André, 1877–1932, French minister of war 1929–32: backed construction of Maginot Line.

Example Sentences

When Hitler’s Nazi Germany was quickly defeating European nations, Americans believed we were still safe because Hitler would not dare invade France, the strongest army in Europe, protected by the Maginot Line.

From Washington Post

Before Congress last week, the Biden administration conceded that one rhetorical Maginot Line supporting withdrawal had fallen.

From Washington Post

The general’s championing of visionary weapons to prepare for this “big fight” also struck me as fanciful, like the failed security the French once found in their Maginot Line.

From Washington Post

As O'Hehir describes, the Democratic Party is hunkered down in its own version of the Maginot Line while the Republican-fascist movement has outmaneuvered and encircled them.

From Salon

In 2006 he derided the Bush administration’s homeland missile defense system as a modern-day Maginot line — a defense that is confidently relied upon despite being unreliable.

From Seattle Times