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Embrasure

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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in architecture, the opening in a battlement between the two raised solid portions or merlons, sometimes called a crenelle (see Battlement, Crenelle); also the splay of a window.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Embrasure'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​e/embrasure.html. 1910.
 
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