crenellated
Britishadjective
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having battlements
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(of a moulding, etc) having square indentations
Example Sentences
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We’re enchanted by the very idea of crenellated ramparts and soaring towers, troubadors, jesters and knights.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2024
The crenellated roofline may feel antiquated but the pattern of the slender windows, some in the shape of a diamond, evoke an 8-bit digital design.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2022
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks moved the capital back to Moscow and power retreated behind the high, crenellated walls of the Kremlin.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 2022
They have the same exquisite slab of chicken breast, hefty and juicy and snow-white, in its crenellated armor of that uncommonly crisp fried batter.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2019
She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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