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Meanings of crenelated in inglés

Embattled.

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Usage of crenelated in inglés
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The horizontal light turned their shadows into giants atop the crenelated dunes.
Carrion comfort
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He saw it at the end of every street-gable-ornamentedand crenelated.
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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It was from that wall... from its crenelated parapets and battlements that Mr.
The Street That Wasn't There
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The house was a tiny imitation of a castle, with crenelated parapet and tower.
The Web of Life
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From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
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She had crenelated black hair, large black eyes, a Roman nose, and long white teeth.
The Morgesons: A Novel
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The latter is crenelated, loopholed for musketry, and mounts six cannon of a very primitive kind.
A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán
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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...
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Along some of the highest portions of the expanse were suggestions of crumbling and unevenly crenelated parapets.
Dark rivers of the heart
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Before us were graceful, piled mountains, the crenelated mass of Les Trois Couronnes glittering with wintry diamonds.
The Car of Destiny
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North, south, east and west, the trade-routes intersected, entering the city through the ornate gates in crenelated limestone walls.
Caesar Dies
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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
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The tall, crenelated towers of architect ants cast ghostly silhouettes against a sky only slightly darker than the land.
The Hyperion Cantos
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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
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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...
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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
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