Crenellation vs Embrasure - What's the difference?
crenellation | embrasure |
A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
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The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
*2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 155:
(obsolete) An embrace.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between crenellation and embrasure
is that crenellation is a pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture while embrasure is any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.crenellation
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Alternative forms
* crenelationNoun
(en noun)citation
Hypernyms
* battlementSee also
* ("crenellation" on Wikipedia)embrasure
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Noun
(en noun)- Now he stands in a window embrasure , Liz's prayer book in hand.
- Our locked embrasures .