PRONUNCIATION: (BRIJ-hed)

MEANING: noun:
1. A foothold opening the way for further advance.
2. A fortified position at the end of a bridge nearest the enemy.

ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of French tête de pont (bridge head). Earliest documented use: 1760. Also see beachhead.
____________________________

BRIDEHEAD - BBC series about an old aristocratic British family, prequel to a 1945 book by Evelyn Waugh

RIDGEHEAD - a geological formation often seen at the Continental Divide

BRIDGE MEAD - a brew often served shipboard at the Officer's Mess