Definition of Embresure
Em*bra"sure (?; 135), n. [See
Embrace.] An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked
embrasures." Shak.
Em*bra"sure (277), n. [F., fr.
embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an
opening; of unknown origin.] 1. (Arch.) A
splay of a door or window.
Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's
embrasure,
Sat the lovers. Longfellow.
2. (Fort.) An aperture with slant
sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and
discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of
Casemate.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (architecture, military): Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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