embrasure
noun
(in fortification) an opening, as a loophole or crenel, through which missiles may be discharged.
embrasured
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a word derived from
embrasure.
Example Sentences
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Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery, dug in for a spiky hedgehog battle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The evening sun, shining through the small, deeply embrasured windows, fell on a face at no time joyous, now tired and worn.
From The Sowers by Henry Seton Merriman
Both the doors and embrasured windows of this room merit careful study.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
First I erected an ancient castle, consisting of four towers built on a rectangular base, and connected by straight curtains embrasured a-top.
From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller
In the days of the past it had claimed much more—goods, and cattle, and tribute of the traffic going northward—as the loop-holed quadrangle for impounded stock, and the deeply embrasured tower, showed.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
