crenellated

US crenelated

/ (ˈkrɛnɪˌleɪtɪd) /


adjective
  1. having battlements

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

Words Nearby crenellated

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How to use crenellated in a sentence

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

    A Wayfarer in China | Elizabeth Kendall
  • The King's barge was already illuminating the crenellated arch at the top of the river steps.

    The Fifth Queen | Ford Madox Ford
  • 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.

    Life in a Medival City | Edwin Benson
  • The great walls of the belfry are three feet thick, and the roof was probably battlemented or crenellated.