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Meanings of crenellated in English

Embattled.

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Usage of crenellated in English
1
The tower was topped by a crenellated terrace and conical wooden roof.
Hidden Warrior
2
Its crenellated tower of yellowish stone rises above a stand of date palms.
The Irish Times
3
Ten paces across, the tower top was, encircled by a chest-high, crenellated wall.
The great hunt
4
The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success.
The Lovels of Arden
5
The crenellated surface of an asteroid appeared on their port camera-meters away-thenvanished.
The Fall of Reach
6
Bellis saw Captain Myzovic climb the steep streets toward New Crobuzon's crenellated embassy.
The Scar
7
Spectre horsemen, pale with dust, anonymous in the crenellated heat.
Blood Meridian
8
From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenellated, and pierced with many loopholes.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
9
Oh, Vienna had a traditional pre-Engineer wall: a thin curtain of masonry, crenellated on top.
Quicksilver
10
The landing itself was a narrow slab of gray stone surrounded by a crenellated barricade.
Spellwright
11
The walls are crenellated, and strengthened by numerous buttresses.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II / From Teheran To Yoko...
12
And rearing out of the centre was the dusty brown crenellated spike of Skygarden Tower.
Broken Homes
13
They took it, and found themselves on a winding track that followed the crenellated coastline.
The White Road
14
Andy Sanders stood behind one of these crenellated trunks.
Under the dome: a novel
15
Minarets and spires and chimney stacks and crenellated openings warred with one another for space.
Night gate
16
He wore a crenellated beanie that fit in perfect roundness over his waxed crew cut.
Winter’s Tale
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