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embrasure

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embrasure
an opening forming a door or window, having splayed sides that increase the width of the opening in the interior
embrasure [em′brā·zhər]
(architecture)
Opening in a wall or parapet, especially one through which a gun is fired.
An opening such as for a door or window with sloping or beveled sides.
embrasure
embrasure: B
1. The crenels or intervals between the merlons of a battlement.
2. An enlargement
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The other bank of the stream was open ground -- a gentle slope topped with a stockade of vertical tree trunks, loopholed for rifles, with a single embrasure through which protruded the muzzle of a brass cannon commanding the bridge.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
There was a rustling in the shadows of a near-by corridor, and he could have sworn that he saw a human hand withdrawn from an embrasure that opened above him into the domelike rotunda in which he found himself.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
His stay at the castle of Stutevill was drawn out to three days, and then, on the third day, as he sat with Bertrade de Montfort in an embrasure of the south tower of the old castle, he spoke once more of the necessity for leaving and once more she urged him to remain.
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