Machiolate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Machiolate is an adjective meaning (rare, of a parapet) machicolated.
Meaning
(rare, of a parapet) machicolated.
Example Sentences
Whose double towers support a pond'rous gate, / With fatal battlement machiolate.
These churches had such defensive features as thick walls, loopholes, machiolate parapets and towers.
The square tower, with its machiolate battlement — all that is left of the castle has been visited by pilgrims from every clime.
He views the iron-studded doors, / The vaulted roof, and corridors, / And turrets through whose pierced walls / Machiolate, the weight might fall / Of scalding streams of molten lead / Upon besiegers' fated head.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mansard, monticulous, fimbricated, morphologicalized, peltated, mitred.
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