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Merlon
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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in architecture, the solid part of an embattled parapet between the embrasures, sometimes pierced by loopholes. The word is French, adapted from Ital. merlone, possibly a shortened form of mergola, connected with Lat. mergae, pitchfork, or from a diminutive moerulus, from murus (moerus), a wall.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Merlon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/merlon.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Merlon'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/merlon.html. 1910.
