Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having battlements.
- adjective Indented; notched.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
embattled . See alsocrenelate , v. - Furnished with crenelles, as a parapet or breastwork: specifically, in architecture, applied to a kind of embattled or indented molding of frequent occurrence in Norman work.
- Fluted; channeled; covered with indentations.
- Also crenate, crenated, crenclled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement.
- adjective having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle; -- of a building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crenelate . - adjective Having
crenellations orbattlements - adjective Having a series of square
indentations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After squeezing out the "crenelated" doughnuts with little ridges, it is time to prepare the piece de resistance - the hot chocolate sauce.
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Hardscrabble Pimas still live in scattered, remote shacks, but in town there are brand-new pickups and ATVs, and mansions going up with three-car garages and crenelated castle motifs.
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Invariably, the covers featured a crenelated or turreted but always imposing stone pile.
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At the time I was lucky enough to have a window seat, so I watched the crenelated walls speed by as the melodies swelled around me.
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The Ferragamo museum, housed in the basement of a crenelated palazzo in Florence, has some 10,000 shoes, including some made for Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, and Judy Garland.
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Breathing hard, Oord and Cietu reached the north face and climbed onto the crenelated wall.
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This tower was one of a pair — square, incongruous, crenelated structures — that were distinguished, for some reason, though I could see little difference, as the new and the old.
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On a misty morning, it's a bewitching sight -- an abandoned Scottish castle with a soaring tower and crenelated battlements rising from a forested, six-acre island.
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The opening was set into the side of a block-shaped structure that was buried in loose soil almost to the top of its flat, crenelated roof and decorated with a border of skulls similar to but smaller than the one they first saw.
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The opening was set into the side of a block-shaped structure that was buried in loose soil almost to the top of its flat, crenelated roof and decorated with a border of skulls similar to but smaller than the one they first saw.
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