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- noun Plural form of
battlement .
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Examples
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Out of the four main battlements, all but the southernmost were under the firm, unyielding hand of the Clan Engineers.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Food isn't fantastic, though perfectly palatable – but evening chai on the battlements is a fabulous Indian experience.
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The word thus rendered in Isa. 54: 12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun" = having a radiated appearance like the sun.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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Repeated to me by poor old drunken Jem White the sexton, many years since, when on the "battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being the market town for the three villages in the rhymes quoted.
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The cold, ethereal beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after all.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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The cold, ethereal beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after all.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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The cold, ethereal beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after all.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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The structure isnt a tent, like the ones in Haga Park in Sweden; it has too many details like the battlements.
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The structure isnt a tent, like the ones in Haga Park in Sweden; it has too many details like the battlements.
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But hell and goblins damned have no place on a stage that is dappled with the light of an ill-defined Scandinavia: Tom Scutt's design, of birch trees and wan stone, supplies battlements that look more country house than castle.
Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust Susannah Clapp 2010
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