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crenelated

crenelated \crenelated\ adj.

  1. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; as, a crenelated molding.

    Syn: embattled, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented.

  2. having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building.

    Syn: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenellated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crenelated

1823, past participle adjective from crenelate.

Wiktionary
crenelated
  1. 1 Having crenellations or battlements 2 Having a series of square indentations alt. (en-past of: crenelate) v

  2. (en-past of: crenelate)

WordNet
crenelated
  1. adj. having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: embattled, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented]

  2. (of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle [syn: battlemented, castellated, castled, crenellated]

Usage examples of "crenelated".

They had spent many furtive hours discovering the route to usewhich entailed first slipping out their bedroom window, then around a dormer and down a rain gutter, along a wall lined with decorative, crenelated fortifications, through a loose window into an attic, and down a rope ladder that they had prehung inside a sealed-off, abandoned chimney .

As its name, Pont-Carre, indicated, it was square, and was flanked by four crenelated towers and surrounded by a broad moat.

She raised Bruno in those high-ceilinged rooms, a world far removed from that of the child's contemporaries, a Victorian world of waist-high wainscoting and flowered wallpaper and crenelated molding and footstools and mantel clocks and lace tablecloths.

My eyelids focused purple contact lenses to six magnitudes while I admired the crenelated ramparts, great turrets dour aeries, and brave pennons fluttering against a background of mountain crag and heavy, blue-black forest.