Machicolated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Machicolated is an adjective meaning Having machicolations.
Meaning
Having machicolations.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of machicolate
Example Sentences
He himself, however, seems to have preferred another of the family estates, a more machicolated and Otrantive residence called Compton
Of the outer fortifications there remains a brick gateway, with Gothic arch carrying a high machicolated tower, connected to which is a fragment of the wall.
[…] Arthur with a hundred spears / Rode far, till o'er the illimitable reed, / And many a glancing plash and sallowy isle, / The wide-wing'd sunset of the misty marsh / Glared on a huge machicolated tower […]
The only castle within my ken had been, by my impression, the machicolated villa above us the previous summer at New Brighton, and as I had seen no structure rise beyond that majesty so I had seen none abased to the dignity of ruin.
Word Forms
- machiolate
Antonyms for machicolated
Common opposites include unmachicolated.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include parapet, battlements, parapets, marbled, machetelike, maculated.
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