fortin

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See also: Fortin, fortín, and fört in

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fortin. See fort.

Noun

fortin (plural fortins)

  1. (obsolete) A little fort; a fortlet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fortin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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