A fortification or defense structure made of gabions, which are wire baskets filled with stones or soil used in military engineering.
From French gabionnade, derived from gabion (wire basket) + French suffix -ade (denoting a collection or action). Gabion itself comes from Italian gabbione (augmentative of gabbia, cage).
Gabionades represent a brilliant medieval engineering insight: instead of expensive stone walls, soldiers realized they could quickly fill baskets with rocks and create sturdy fortifications—it's why this word survived even as most military architecture evolved beyond it.
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