battlement
noun
Often battlements. a parapet or cresting, originally defensive but later usually decorative, consisting of a regular alternation of merlons and crenels; crenelation.
battlemented
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a word derived from
battlement.
Example Sentences
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In 1522, when Suleiman the Magnificent stormed the battlemented castle of the Knights of St. John, the islanders had become Turks; since 1912, when imperial-minded Italy won its Turkish War, they had been Italians.
From Time Magazine Archive
While all Britain chuckled at how he had outwitted the strict British law against lotteries, Scotland Yard men walked into battlemented Blair Castle for a conference with the sporting Duke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He found himself on a roof of lead, enclosed by the battlemented parapet.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
It was the oldest building they’d seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
