词汇 | crenelated |
释义 | crenelated adjective architecture specializedUS(also mainly UKcrenellated)us/ˈkren.əl.eɪ.t̬ɪd/uk /ˈkren.əl.eɪ.tɪd/ having battlements (= castle walls with regular spaces along the top) Fortifications acropolis barricade bastion battlements castle drawbridge earthwork enceinte entanglement fort machicolation Martello tower moat moated motte pillbox stockade storm cellar stronghold turret Related wordcrenelations Examples of crenelatedcrenelated The desert was widening, the hills receding, shrinking away to a crenelated edge that fretted a horizon drawn as straight as a ruled line. From Project Gutenberg He looked out over the crenelated wall, but the cold moonlight revealed a vacant street. From Project Gutenberg The summit of the room was crowned by a parapet, crenelated like the walls of a fort. From Project Gutenberg Several episcopals and their servants, entrenched upon a crenelated terrace, fired down upon us with cross-bows. From Project Gutenberg To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. From Project Gutenberg From one turreted buttress pile to the other was maneuvered a crenelated gallery, and originally the passage communicated with the bishop's palace. From Project Gutenberg Even what remains must be nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and its vast crumbling walls and crenelated towers make it strikingly picturesque. From Project Gutenberg Its walls torn asunder; cannon put in its crenelated sides, dilapidated and destroyed; the garden filled with rubbish of all description. From Project Gutenberg The sun cast ruddy tones upon the old crenelated granite church, perched on its rocky pedestal. From Project Gutenberg To knot and make the rope secure around the crenelated apex of the tower was but the work of a moment. From Project Gutenberg The walls on the left seemed perhaps a trifle higher, ranging in height from one hundred to a hundred and eighty feet, the crest in places broken into crenelated turrets. From Project Gutenberg As the party advanced in the valley, in the far distance the crenelated outlines of two other similar and parallel walls appeared, situated also upon the crests. From Project Gutenberg Beyond the desert waste, lay the enemy's entrenchments--earthworks strengthened with gabions and trunks of trees, and here and there crenelated with the embrasures for their batteries. From Project Gutenberg A heavy cornice with prominent double denticulated string course or crenelated molding runs entirely around the room, tying the fireplace end of the room into the general scheme. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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