On the night of December 5 the British strengthened their line by abandoning certain untenable positions near Cambrai, falling back deliberately and successfully, unknown to the enemy, upon a well-chosen line which ruled out the dangerous salient made by Bourlon Wood.

The presiding and working faculty of a common English inn distinguishes it by another salient characteristic from the hotels of other countries.

Noticeable, prominent, conspicuous, salient, signal.

It was General von Boehm and his former command, the German Eighth Army, that stood the brunt of the Allied pressure in the Marne salient previous to the retreat of the Huns to the north of the Vesle river, where they were still standing in the middle of August.

Noticeable, prominent, conspicuous, salient, signal.

(1) Salmon, sally, assail, assault, insult, consult, result, exultation, desultory; (2) salient, salacious, resilient.

On the same principle, if your troops are forced back from their front-line trenches, you call this "successfully straightening out an awkward salient.

A wicked salient was produced in the British line to the south-east by the cave-in to the north.