Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having battlements.
  • adjective Indented; notched.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as embattled. See also crenelate, v.
  • Furnished with crenelles, as a parapet or breastwork: specifically, in architecture, applied to a kind of embattled or indented molding of frequent occurrence in Norman work.
  • Fluted; channeled; covered with indentations.
  • Also crenate, crenated, crenclled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement.
  • adjective having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of crenelate.
  • adjective Having crenellations or battlements
  • adjective Having a series of square indentations

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably from French créneler, to furnish with battlements, from Old French crenel, crenelation, diminutive of cren, notch; see cranny.]

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Examples

  • After squeezing out the "crenelated" doughnuts with little ridges, it is time to prepare the piece de resistance - the hot chocolate sauce.

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  • Hardscrabble Pimas still live in scattered, remote shacks, but in town there are brand-new pickups and ATVs, and mansions going up with three-car garages and crenelated castle motifs.

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  • Invariably, the covers featured a crenelated or turreted but always imposing stone pile.

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  • At the time I was lucky enough to have a window seat, so I watched the crenelated walls speed by as the melodies swelled around me.

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  • The Ferragamo museum, housed in the basement of a crenelated palazzo in Florence, has some 10,000 shoes, including some made for Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Judy Garland.

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  • Breathing hard, Oord and Cietu reached the north face and climbed onto the crenelated wall.

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  • This tower was one of a pair — square, incongruous, crenelated structures — that were distinguished, for some reason, though I could see little difference, as the new and the old.

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  • On a misty morning, it's a bewitching sight -- an abandoned Scottish castle with a soaring tower and crenelated battlements rising from a forested, six-acre island.

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  • The opening was set into the side of a block-shaped structure that was buried in loose soil almost to the top of its flat, crenelated roof and decorated with a border of skulls similar to but smaller than the one they first saw.

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  • The opening was set into the side of a block-shaped structure that was buried in loose soil almost to the top of its flat, crenelated roof and decorated with a border of skulls similar to but smaller than the one they first saw.

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