How to pronounce “demilune”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (architecture, furniture) In the shape of a half-moon, i.e. semicircular.
• [Noun]
• (military, architecture) A fortification constructed beyond the main ditch of a fortress, and in front of the curtain between two bastions, intended to defend the curtain; a ravelin.
• (biology) A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

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