crenellated

US crenelated

/ (ˈkrɛnɪˌleɪtɪd) /

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adjective

having battlements

(of a moulding, etc) having square indentations

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Words nearby crenellated

crenature, crenel, crenelate, crenelated, crenellate, crenellated, crenshaw melon, crenulate, crenulation, creodont, Creole

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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.
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. II (of 2)|Georges Perrot
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.
Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century|Henry Chandlee Forman