embrasure

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I am all right She moved to a deep window-embrasure, and sat down on the cushioned seat.

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  1. noun An opening in a thick wall for a door or window, especially one with sides angled so that the opening is larger on the inside of the wall than on the outside.
  2. noun A flared opening for a gun in a wall or parapet.

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  • He must have been able to see the Siren from an embrasure, and could work his magic on whomever he could see. —  Night Mare
  • Light from the hall beyond was spilling into the room through the small embrasure, and he frowned at the opening. —  Lynsay Sands - [Argeneau 09] - Vampire, Interrupted
  • She stood in the window embrasure, her back to the light, her hands as always clasped quietly against her skirts. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • Tucked away in a window embrasure is the one she treasures most. —  Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
  • What did it mean As I crouched in the embrasure, a sudden giddiness assailed me, which at first I ascribed to a sympathetic nervous action due to having seen the man poised there at that dizzy height. —  The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor
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  1. French, from embraser, to widen an opening.

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  1. from French embrasure, an embrasure, orig. the skewing, splaying, or chamfreting of a door or window, from Old French embraser, skew, splay, or chamfer the jambs of a door or window (modern F. ébraser, splay), from en- + braser, skew, chamfret.
  2. Irreg. from embrace, French embrasser, + -ure.
  3. embrasure, n.
 

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/ɛmˈbreɪʒər/
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