A Roman military road with a fosse or ditch on each side to keep it dry.
“Cars and other vehicles queued for hours to reach the fair, backing up through Stow Square and up to the Fosseway.”
“Mr Allen spent six weeks in intensive care after the accident when scaffolding being carried in a truck smashed through the windscreen of his Fosseway Coaches bus.”
“It happened at the junction of Shortbutts Lane and the Fosseway in Lichfield on Monday afternoon.”
noun
1.A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal of the civet family, found in the rainforests of Madagascar.
‘Foreigners can also volunteer with Earthwatch to help track lemurs or radio-collar Madagascar’s lynx-like _fossa_ .’
‘It was also home to animals that preyed on lemurs, among them the large, catlike _fossa_ , which I was to encounter many times.’
2.A shallow depression or hollow.
‘If one classifies CSF leaks according to location they may be found in the anterior, middle or posterior cranial _fossae_ .’
‘They occupy the ovarian _fossae_ on the lateral pelvic wall.’
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‘Foreigners can also volunteer with Earthwatch to help track lemurs or radio-collar Madagascar’s lynx-like _fossa_ .’
