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crenellation, -elation|krɛnɛˈleɪʃən|
1. The action of crenellating or providing with battlements; the condition of being crenellated.
1874Stubbs Const. Hist. (1875) III. xxi. 536 The fortification or crenellation of these houses or castles.
2. concr. Embattled work; a battlement.
1849Lytton Caxtons xii. vi. (D.), Octavo ramparts flanked with quarto crenellations. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. v. 294 The Scots laird..perched projecting crenelations or bastions on the top corners of his tower.
3. A notch or indentation.
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