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crenellation

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Noun1.crenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or gunscrenellation - a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
battlement, crenelation
crenel, crenelle - a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement
fortress, fort - a fortified defensive structure
merlon - a solid section between two crenels in a crenelated battlement
bulwark, rampart, wall - an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"
2.crenellation - the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows
crenelation
construction, building - the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
Translations
crenellation
n usu pl (on castle) → Zinnen pl, → Krenelierung f (spec); (on moulding) → Zinnenmuster nt
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And at least three posuban resemble the polygonal bastions of forts, complete with crenellation (Fig.
"Come and try": towards a history of Fante military shrines by Ross, Doran H. / African Arts
The stage is surmounted by a fly tower expressed as a monumental crenellation on the hermetic box of the concert hail.
Frozen music: Leon's new concert hall is an imaginative distillation ... by Bertolucci, Carla / The Architectural Review
57 Where it has grown out of functional reference it can be historic, as in the use of crenellation in heraldry.
Ornament on trial. (Royal Academy Forum) by Phillips, Tom / The Architectural Review
 
 
 
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