parapet
parapeted
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a word derived from
parapet.
Example Sentences
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For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The portico was flanked by a parapeted balcony, upon which faced, on each side, a row of French windows, closed and curtained, but not shuttered.
From Through stained glass by George Agnew Chamberlain
Three little windows overlook the arch; the black noses of small cannon protrude in a long row out of the white parapeted walls; a flagstaff tops the whole, and flies the crimson streamer of Morocco.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
The city, whether Ghent or Bagdad, would consist of the same sort of houses peaked and parapeted, the same towers and pinnacles that the illuminator saw before him in his daily walks.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
Girdled with its green and slimy ditch, round the inner edge of which ran a parapeted wall pierced along the top with shot holes, stood the buildings, spreading often over many acres.
From School Reading by Grades Sixth Year by James Baldwin
