Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically)
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Embrasure
//ɪmˈbɹeɪʒə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "embrasure" (5 found)
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32 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَزْغَل noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mazğal noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Bulgarian
3 entries- амбразу́ра noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- бо́йница noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- мазга́л noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Catalan
1 entries- tronera noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 垛口 noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Dutch
1 entries- schietgat noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Finnish
1 entries- ampuma-aukko noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
French
2 entries- embrasure noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- ébrasure noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Galician
1 entries- troneira noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
German
2 entries- Scharte noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- Schießscharte noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Greek
3 entries- μασγάλι noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- πολεμίστρα noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- σμαγδάλι noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Macedonian
2 entries- пушкарница noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- стрелачница noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Norman
1 entries- êvilement noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Polish
1 entries- ambrazura noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Portuguese
1 entries- troneira noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Russian
2 entries- амбразу́ра noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- бойни́ца noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- màzgāl noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- pùškārnica noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Spanish
1 entries- tronera noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Swedish
1 entries- embrasyr noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Turkish
1 entries- mazgal noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Ukrainian
1 entries- амбразу́ра noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
Welsh
2 entries- agorfa noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
- saethdwll noun (any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement)
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But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun.
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The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.
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She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.
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