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Meanings of crenelle in English

Spanish
crenación

One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

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        crenación
        Usage of crenelle in English
        1
        Round the upper edge of the basin were what looked like crenelles, and between these the swallow had built her nest.
        The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
        2
        Madame de Nucingen would lap up all the mud between the Rue Saint-Lazare and the Rue de Crenelle to gain admission to my salon.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction
        Translations for crenelle
        Spanish
        crenación