Embrasure

Quick meaning: Embrasure is a noun meaning (figurative) Any small protected space.

Meaning

(figurative) Any small protected space.

More Meanings

1. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
2. (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically)

Now he stands in a window embrasure, Liz's prayer book in hand.

She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.

The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.

Word Forms

• embrasures

Synonyms for embrasure

Depending on context, synonyms include port, porthole.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include port, porthole, battlement, embattlement, bonnet, berm.

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