- (literary)
a place or situation in which somebody/something is protected when they are being attacked or threatened 藏身之所；堡垒 a small building from which soldiers can fight and defend themselves 掩体；防御工事
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French redoute, from obsolete Italian ridotta and medieval Latin reductus ‘refuge’, from Latin reducere ‘withdraw’. The -b- was added by association with doubt.