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crenellated

/ ˈkrɛnɪˌleɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. having battlements
  2. (of a moulding, etc) having square indentations


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Example Sentences

The wall is some forty feet high, and along the top runs a broad path enclosed by crenellated parapets.

The King's barge was already illuminating the crenellated arch at the top of the river steps.

The houses figured in the bas-reliefs are often surrounded by a crenellated wall, and stand in the middle of a court or garden.

They could walk along the high crenellated walls of the Barbican and shoot thence, and stop the way by lowering the portcullis.

The great walls of the belfry are three feet thick, and the roof was probably battlemented or crenellated.

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