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Definition of Embrasure
1. Noun. An opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through.
Definition of Embrasure
1. n. An embrace.
2. n. A splay of a door or window.
Definition of Embrasure
1. Noun. (context: architecture military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement. ¹
2. Noun. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embrasure
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Embrasure
1. 1. A splay of a door or window. "Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers." (Longfellow) 2. An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. Origin: F, fr. Embraser, perh. Equiv. To ebraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrasure
Literary usage of Embrasure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Field Fortifications: For the Use of the Cadets of the by Junius Brutus Wheeler (1898)
"Embrasure fire.—The opening made in a parapet to allow a piece of artillery to
fire through it, is called an embrasure. The gun may rest upon the natural ..."
2. A Treatise on Ordnance and Armor: Embracing Descriptions, Discussions, and by Alexander Lyman Holley (1865)
"An embrasure was therefore constructed of bars 10 x 4J in., ... This embrasure
stood the most severe tests without showing any signs of weakness; ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... but stood with her in the embrasure of a window, paying her compliments.
At length the Groom of the Chambers announced his Royal Highness the Prince of ..."
4. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac by John Gross Barnard, William Farquhar Barry (1863)
"GENERAL :—By request of General McClellan I have Lad made a number of rope
mantlets, or embrasure blinds, for your siege-batteries. ..."
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