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 .

Noun

(en noun)

*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Robert Ames Bennet, title=Bloom of Cactus, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=As half in the deep window embrazure , Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, title=Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In the embrazure of one of the windows, a young girl was sitting, with a drawing-board in her lap, apparently absorbed in the contemplation of a marble relief which was suspended upon the wall. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1824, author=Washington Irving, title=Tales of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Every Amazon took part with one or other of the disputants, and brandished her arms dripping with soapsuds, and fired away from her window as from the embrazure of a fortress; while the swarms of children nestled and cradled in every procreant chamber of this hive, waking with the noise, set up their shrill pipes to swell the general concert. }}