Note 7 — PREFACE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
The compiler must here apologize for coining the word defiladed, which he is obliged to do, never having seen this subject treated of in English. But the French use the word defile in a contrary sense to enfile; and as we admit the words enfilade and enfiladed from the latter, we cannot refuse the terms defilade and defiladed from the former.