300px|thumb|right|A coupure where the A2 motorway (Netherlands)|A2 motorway crosses the Diefdijk ([[Hollandic Water Line) in the Netherlands.]] thumb|right|A coupure with a shed for storing the materials used to close the coupure in Het Hogeland
300px|thumb|right|A coupure where the A2 motorway (Netherlands)|A2 motorway crosses the Diefdijk ([[Hollandic Water Line) in the Netherlands.]] thumb|right|A coupure with a shed for storing the materials used to close the coupure in Het Hogeland
A coupure is a means of closing an opening in a wall, floodwall or levee (dike). The word comes from the French verb which means "to cut". In historic times a coupure was a location where a breach in the city walls or the walls of a fortress was closed. In more modern times a coupure is a way of allowing traffic to pass a flood protection structure.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).