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- noun Plural form of
crenellation .
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Examples
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She and Tabitha ran hand in hand about the enclosure, studying the façades, the gargoyles, the crenellations, all that architectural ostentatious crap.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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She and Tabitha ran hand in hand about the enclosure, studying the façades, the gargoyles, the crenellations, all that architectural ostentatious crap.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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At dawn Amarantha sat among the crenellations in the lee of her tower, eating porridge and berries she barely tasted.
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Consulting a copy of "The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps," Mr. Hessler decides to follow the printed crenellations of the Great Wall west into the arid heartland of the country, picking up hitchhikers as he goes.
China's Long, Strange Road Trip Tatiana Lau 2010
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Bullets started whizzing past him, pinging off the cast-iron crenellations.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations.
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Consulting a copy of "The Chinese Automobile Driver's Book of Maps," Mr. Hessler decides to follow the printed crenellations of the Great Wall west into the arid heartland of the country, picking up hitchhikers as he goes.
China's Long, Strange Road Trip Tatiana Lau 2010
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Mr. ROBERT STONE (Author, "Fun with Problems"): (Reading) Hampton County locked them down in a 19th century brick fortress of a jail, a penitential fantasy of red brick keeps and crenellations.
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To my mind, cabernet sauvignon, as long as there's only a bit of it, interferes less with the architecture of sangiovese, merely strengthening the foundations rather than filling inthe crenellations as merlot does.
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