An opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

Usage examples of embrasure.

Palewski wondered briefly whether sunlight had penetrated to this spot at all in the past fifteen hundred years: the sunken doorcase, he had long suspected, was early Byzantine work, and he had no reason to imagine that the dark wooden handrail, to which he was now clinging as he swung blindly but unfalteringly upstairs, was anything but Byzantine itself, like the stone of the house, and the window embrasures, and the very probably Roman vaulting overhead.

She rose from her chair and went to the lectern placed to catch the daylight from the embrasured window.

They strolled out casually together into the next chamber, and Cazaril led Palli to a window embrasure that overlooked a moonlit courtyard.

From deep embrasures admitting shafts of sunlight or little areas of stars, the solar looked down upon the embankment of the Seine, whence ascended by day the cries of boatmen and by night the songs of students turning in from their pothouse congregations to the hostels provided in the quarter by the bounty of the king.

Gewgaws and rickrack ornamented the facade, which included complicated turrets and window embrasures.

He gestured with a long arm to the roofless buildings, the tower whose every open floor and window embrasure, like the cliff behind it, sported its own pendant garden of fern, spider plant, Wookiee-beard, and sweetberry vine.

LISLE are visible in backlit silhouette, and an EMBRASURE of sad windowlight shines through her legs.

A moment later, light threw shadows on the embrasure as the nurse lit the candle, and Agnes calmly instructed a page to set down the fresh tray before fetching Marta to straighten the mess.

The French officer suddenly jerked, as though waking to find a nightmare real, and shouted at his men to forsake their cannons and snatch their carbines from racks beside the embrasures.

To one of the merlons, a jutting stone stub between two embrasures, a stripped pine trunk was lashed tight.

Sharpe, who had been sitting in one of the embrasures that faced the channel, looked up.

Once in place, hidden close to the fortress, a Forlorn Hope would charge across the masonry bridge of the dam, put ladders to the closest embrasures, and climb.

Riflemen, sent by Frederickson on to the western rampart, cleared the water bastion and, leaning in its cannon embrasures, enfiladed the ladders.

Most men, their weapons cleaned, just sat by the embrasures and stared into empty air.

Sharpe waited, standing in one of the embrasures with his sword drawn.