"circumvallation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 3, Penguin, published 2003, page 201:",
          "text": "[...] and in a word, would intrench and fortify them round with as many circumvallations and breast-works, as my uncle Toby would a citadel.",
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          "text": "The Saxon architect had exhausted his art in rendering the main keep defensible, and there was no other circumvallation than a rude barrier of palisades.",
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          "ref": "1901, Henry James, Flickerbridge:",
          "text": "He just managed to finish her in time—the day before the date fixed for his breaking ground on a greater business still, the circumvallation of Mrs. Dunn.",
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        "A rampart or other defensive entrenchment that entirely encircles the position being defended."
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