Associations to the word «Embrasure»
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
EMBRASURE, noun. (architecture) (military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
EMBRASURE, noun. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
EMBRASURE, noun. (obsolete) An embrace.
Dictionary definition
EMBRASURE, noun. An opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.