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- noun Plural form of
castellation .Battlements andturrets added to a building to give it the appearance, or the function, of acastle
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Examples
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I had thought that Castilla referred to "castellations" You set me straight!
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The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender.
Archive 2007-07-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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But as Laxness begins elaborating the description, the language takes on density and texture; the words become more specific and harder-edged, the landscape comes alive in the imagination: The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender.
Independent People Bruce Schauble 2007
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The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender.
Independent People Bruce Schauble 2007
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But as Laxness begins elaborating the description, the language takes on density and texture; the words become more specific and harder-edged, the landscape comes alive in the imagination: The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender.
Archive 2007-07-01 Bruce Schauble 2007
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The head still shows the castellations of the Hismá.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The latter attaches to the higher Libn, whose triad of peaks, the central and highest built of three distinct castellations, flush and blush with a delicate pink-white cheek as it receives the hot caresses of the sun.
The Land of Midian 2003
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And it's more of a grand house rather than a castle with battlements and castellations.
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To Sharpe's front the Castle seemed suddenly bare of defenders, driven behind the castellations or the rubble by the Rifles 'accuracy.
Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984
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He lowered the sword, his eyes grim on the terrified men who pressed back against the castellations.
Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984
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