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Embattlement

Embattlement \Em*bat"tle*ment\, n.

  1. An intended parapet; a battlement.

  2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.

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embattlement

n. (context countable English) A battlement.

Usage examples of "embattlement".

The crags of the Aiguille Dorees, and some green uplands gave color to the glittering world of ice, and far away towered the white peaks of the Grand Combin and the Weisshorn in a blue cloudless sky, and to the left over the summit of the Grande Fourche she saw the huge embattlements of the Oberland.