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Definition of Battlements
1. battlement [n] - See also: battlement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Battlements
Literary usage of Battlements
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1884)
"Why were these battlements given a height beyond those of the royal palace ? ...
a height at which ordinary battlements, especially when for the most part ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... reliant and the strength Of their own arms, they strove to breach the wall,
Rending the parapets off the towers above, 300 Shaking the battlements, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... battlements, and embrasures," adds, " on the eastern side yet stands part of
that venerable fabric which baffled the attempts of General Sarsfield, ..."
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