Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the wall than on the outside.
- noun A flared opening for a gun in a wall or parapet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To furnish with embrasures, as a wall or fort: used chiefly in the past participle.
- noun An embrace.
- noun In architecture, the enlargement of the aperture of a door or window on the inside of the wall, designed to give more room or admit more light, or to provide a wider range for ballistic arms.
- noun In fortification, an opening in a wall or parapet through which guns are pointed and fired; the indent or crenelle of an embattlement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An embrace.
- noun (Arch.) A splay of a door or window.
- noun (Fort.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See
Illust. ofCasemate .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun architecture, military Any of the
indentations between themerlons of abattlement . - noun The
slanting indentation in a wall for adoor orwindow , such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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May I suggest that you might want to use the term embrasure correctly?
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Upon these, and along the walls, which in most castles were topped by a parapet and a kind of embrasure called crennels, the defenders of the castle were stationed during a siege, and from thence discharged arrows, darts, stones, and every kind of annoyance they could procure, upon their enemies.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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He lay back against the embrasure, his fist rolling the knotted muscles of his thigh.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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He lay back against the embrasure, his fist rolling the knotted muscles of his thigh.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Toryn hurried over to it up for him so that some light from the window embrasure fell upon the wall.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six xcpublishing 2009
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Instead he sat in a cushioned window embrasure, moonlight throwing shadows beneath his dark eyes, glints of glimmering copper into his hair.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Instead he sat in a cushioned window embrasure, moonlight throwing shadows beneath his dark eyes, glints of glimmering copper into his hair.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Instead he sat in a cushioned window embrasure, moonlight throwing shadows beneath his dark eyes, glints of glimmering copper into his hair.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Terrence and Aaron lolled into a cushioned embrasure of a window seat, sufficiently near to each other to nudge the points of their respective contentions as
CHAPTER XI 2010
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He lay back against the embrasure, his fist rolling the knotted muscles of his thigh.
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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