| 词汇 | crenelations |
| 释义 | crenelations noun[ plural ] mainly US(UK usuallycrenellations)us/ˌkren.əlˈeɪ.ʃənz/uk /ˌkren.əlˈeɪ.ʃənz/ a wall around the top of a castle, with regular spaces in it through which the people inside the castle can shoot: The towers were topped by medieval crenelations. The castle's white stone crenelations peeped above a green fringe of trees. Synonym battlements See crenelated Dawn was breaking over the crenelations of the tower. The building in front of them was a jumble of towers, crenelations and massive walls. Soldiers were poised at the crenelations. Fortifications acropolis barricade bastion battlements castle drawbridge earthwork enceinte entanglement fort machicolation Martello tower moat moated motte pillbox stockade storm cellar stronghold turret Examples of crenelationscrenelations He put on his coat, which had been lying across one of the crenelations, and covered his head with a small soft hat. From Project Gutenberg I leaned upon the crenelations and looked off across the hills, enjoying the loveliness of the sky, in which the planets throbbed superbly. From Project Gutenberg Within the crumbling crenelations of the ancient battlements twenty-four once large parishes are more or less abandoned or laid waste with their convents, monasteries, and palaces. 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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