† embrasuren.1
Obsolete. rare.
= embrace n.
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the mind > emotion > love > embrace > [noun] > action of embracing
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. v. 36 Preuents Our lock't embrasures . View more context for this quotation
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embrasuren.2
/ɛmˈbreɪʒ(j)ʊə/ 1. A slanting or bevelling in the sides of an opening to a wall for a window or door, so that the inside profile of the window is larger than that of the outside.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > deep opening of
embrasure1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Embrasure, in architecture, an enlargement of the gap, or aperture of a door, or window, within-side the wall.
1832 in N. Webster Dict. Eng. Lang.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. vii. 268 They put me in a chair in the embrasure of a window.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 181 The spreading or embrasure of the jambs increases the openings inwards.
2.
a. Military. An opening widening from within made in an epaulement or parapet for the purpose of allowing a gun to be fired through it.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun-port
embrasure1702
gun-port1769
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in side of vessel > for gun
porthole1569
embrasure1702
gun-port1769
port1769
1702 Mil. Dict. Embrazures, the Gaps or Loopholes, left open in a Parapet for the Cannon to fire through.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 47 Setting himself close to the wall under an embrasure.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby v. xxxiv. 262 The eye could count each embrazure.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xvi. 333 Riding straight at one of the embrasures, [he] leapt his grey Arab into the breastwork.
b. A port-hole for the same purpose in a ship.
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1759 W. Falconer Descr. Ninety-gun Ship 43 Guns..From dread embrazures formidably peep.
1881 [see sense 3]. 3. attributive.
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1809 Naval Chron. 22 514 An embrasure battery of four guns.
1881 Daily News 29 Aug. 3/4 I..jumped down on the embrasure port.
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embrasurev.
/ɛmˈbreɪʒ(j)ʊə/ transitive. To furnish with embrasures.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > wall [verb (transitive)] > furnish with embrasures
kernel1377
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embrasure1853
crenel1883
1805 Naval Chron. 13 500 The Fort..being completely embrazured.
1853 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 73 He would have rushed to Paris, embrasured the walls.
Derivatives
emˈbrasured adj.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [adjective] > having embrasures
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crenellated1823
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kernellated1861
embrasured1877
1877 H. E. H. King Disciples: Ugo Bassi (ed. 3) iv. 160 The mud embankments, the embrasured walls.
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