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In engineering, a term for various devices used to shelter parts of a mechanism or machine. Examples are the rectangular piece of lead which covers the vents of a cannon, the piece of curved timber above the forward end of the keel of a ship, and the protective platform at the base of machines. The term is also used for the concrete or other hard standing on which aircraft park.



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Missionaries, persecutors, and the faithful played out the main drama on the nearly bare forestage, but the images that guided and haunted them - priests celebrating Mass back in Portugal, a Japanese magistrate on a thronelike seat, Japanese converts crucified on a beach - appeared through the scrim, so that they seemed to exist in a separate reality.
Silence by Wren, Celia / Commonweal
Delayed completion of works to the Place Ovale (a monumental but crude hippodrome of housing enclosing a floriferous traffic roundabout) has however meant that the panoply of embellishments and finishes planned by Fiszer for the stepped approach to the parvis or forestage of his civic cultural monument (plinths, sculpture, uplighters, and so on) has not yet been fully implemented.
Coup de theatre by Meade, Martin / The Architectural Review
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