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embrasure

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Noun — Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.

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From French embrasure, from embras(er) + -ure, from Old French embrasure (“cut at a slant, make a groove or furrow”), from em- + braser (“cut at a slant”).

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