Examples of “embrasure” in a Sentence

noun Any of the gaps between the raised parts of a battlement, or an opening in a wall through which a gun can be fired.

• But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun. — George Orwell pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair (1938)
• The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes. — AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd (1980)

noun The angled recess around a door or window, wider inside the wall than outside.

• Now he stands in a window embrasure, Liz's prayer book in hand. — Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)