What is "arrowslits"

Usage examples of "arrowslits".

It was not a big room, and its windows, a pair of tall, narrow arrowslits looking down on one of the inner courtyards, did nothing to make it seem larger.

A peal of trumpets rolled through the arrowslits, trumpets calling the fanfare from outside the walls, trumpets answering from the keep towers.

Brocaded curtains sided the tall arrowslits to make them seem more like windows.

Beyond the arrowslits, darkness grew and pressed on the light from the lamps in the corridor.

Sunlight streamed through the arrowslits, painting the bare stone walls.

The curtains had been partially drawn over the arrowslits, but the gaps let in enough light behind her to make her face hard to see clearly.

There were no windows but arrowslits, the tower top was deeply crenellated, and the door was of iron a foot thick, judging by the fact that it had not rusted away in all the intervening years.

Instantly haloes of strange color glimmered around the arrowslits and braziers.