An alternative or variant spelling of caponier, a covered fortification passage used in military architecture and siege warfare.
From French 'caponnière', an alternate spelling of the same term, maintaining the same possible etymology as caponier.
Whether spelled caponier or caponiere, these structures completely changed how forts were designed—they made frontal assaults on fortifications devastatingly expensive.
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