Both Uses of
breach
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The mother, perceiving an entrance effected, fell down in front of the opening, barricading the breach with her body, beating the pavement with her head, and shrieking with a voice rendered so hoarse by fatigue that it was hardly audible,— "Help!†
Chpt 2.11.1breach = break or penetrate
- Enter three abreast, as at the breach of Pontoise.†
Chpt 2.11.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.