Term Gallery logo

Meanings of crenelated in English

Embattled.

      Related terms
      Usage of crenelated in English
      1
      The horizontal light turned their shadows into giants atop the crenelated dunes.
      Carrion comfort
      2
      He saw it at the end of every street-gable-ornamentedand crenelated.
      The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
      3
      It was from that wall... from its crenelated parapets and battlements that Mr.
      The Street That Wasn't There
      4
      The house was a tiny imitation of a castle, with crenelated parapet and tower.
      The Web of Life
      5
      From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
      Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
      6
      She had crenelated black hair, large black eyes, a Roman nose, and long white teeth.
      The Morgesons: A Novel
      7
      The latter is crenelated, loopholed for musketry, and mounts six cannon of a very primitive kind.
      A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
      8
      Lesser barons lived in semi-fortified manors, many of which had been licensed to be embattled or crenelated.
      Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 177...
      9
      Along some of the highest portions of the expanse were suggestions of crumbling and unevenly crenelated parapets.
      Dark rivers of the heart
      10
      Before us were graceful, piled mountains, the crenelated mass of Les Trois Couronnes glittering with wintry diamonds.
      The Car of Destiny
      11
      North, south, east and west, the trade-routes intersected, entering the city through the ornate gates in crenelated limestone walls.
      Caesar Dies
      12
      His castle proudly lifted its crenelated walls and pepper-pot roofs from the summit of a hill overlooking the town.
      The Miracle of the Great St. Nicolas / 1920
      13
      The tall, crenelated towers of architect ants cast ghostly silhouettes against a sky only slightly darker than the land.
      The Hyperion Cantos
      14
      The Forbidden City, surrounded by its great crenelated wall, may have seemed more like a prison than like a palace.
      Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People
      15
      As its name, Pont-Carre, indicated, it was square, and was flanked by four crenelated towers and surrounded by a broad moat.
      The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
      16
      It is a plain and massive structure with crenelated walls, and has the aspect of a fortress rather than of a church.
      The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
      About this term
      Crenelated through the time