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Embrasure - What does it mean?

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embrasure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • Now he stands in a window embrasure , Liz's prayer book in hand.
  • (obsolete) An embrace.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Our locked embrasures .

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