Today’s WOTD  – 16 November 2012

redoubt

[ri-dout]

noun – Fortification
1. an isolated work forming a complete enclosure of any form, used to defend a prominent point.

2. an independent earthwork built within a permanent fortification to reinforce it.

noun Mount

3. an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).

Origin:
1600–10; < French redoute < Italian ridotto < Late Latin reductus a refuge, noun use of past participle of Latin redūcere to lead back; see reduce

Example:

Taking heavy casualties the brigade, with most of the 19th attached to it took the great redoubt.

Today’s aphorism

‘Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it’.

– Bernard Meltzer

On this day

16 November 1988 – 35 year old, Benazir Bhutto elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state. She was a member of the democratic-socialist Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).