| 单词 | crenelated |
| 释义 | crenelated adjective architecturespecializedUS(also mainlyUKcrenellated)us/ˈkren.əl.eɪ.t̬ɪd/uk/ˈkren.əl.eɪ.tɪd/havingbattlements(=castlewallswithregularspacesalong thetop) Fortifications
Examplesofcrenelatedcrenelated The desert was widening, the hills receding, shrinking away to acrenelatededge that fretted a horizon drawn as straight as a ruled line. FromProject Gutenberg He looked out over thecrenelatedwall, but the cold moonlight revealed a vacant street. FromProject Gutenberg The summit of the room was crowned by a parapet,crenelatedlike the walls of a fort. FromProject Gutenberg Several episcopals and their servants, entrenched upon acrenelatedterrace, fired down upon us with cross-bows. FromProject Gutenberg To indent; to notch; as, acrenelatedleaf. FromProject Gutenberg From one turreted buttress pile to the other was maneuvered acrenelatedgallery, and originally the passage communicated with the bishop's palace. FromProject Gutenberg Even what remains must be nearly a quarter of a mile in length, and its vast crumbling walls andcrenelatedtowers make it strikingly picturesque. FromProject Gutenberg Its walls torn asunder; cannon put in itscrenelatedsides, dilapidated and destroyed; the garden filled with rubbish of all description. FromProject Gutenberg The sun cast ruddy tones upon the oldcrenelatedgranite church, perched on its rocky pedestal. FromProject Gutenberg To knot and make the rope secure around thecrenelatedapex of the tower was but the work of a moment. FromProject Gutenberg The walls on the left seemed perhaps a trifle higher, ranging in height from one hundred to a hundred and eighty feet, the crest in places broken intocrenelatedturrets. FromProject Gutenberg As the party advanced in the valley, in the far distance thecrenelatedoutlines of two other similar and parallel walls appeared, situated also upon the crests. FromProject Gutenberg Beyond the desert waste, lay the enemy's entrenchments--earthworks strengthened with gabions and trunks of trees, and here and therecrenelatedwith the embrasures for their batteries. FromProject Gutenberg A heavy cornice with prominent double denticulated string course orcrenelatedmolding runs entirely around the room, tying the fireplace end of the room into the general scheme. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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