单词 | battlemented |
释义 | battlemented (once / 16647 pages) adj WORD FAMILY battlemented USAGE EXAMPLESThe first of the equinoctial gales raged from the south west, thundering against the battlemented crags of Cornwall, shrieking up the Devonshire valleys. Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie, The Tree of Knowledge—A Novel(2012) And of a truth the space enclosed within these battlemented walls would have afforded shelter to a great community. Boyd, Mary Stuart, The Fortunate Isles—Life and Travel...(2012) They are sometimes ornamented with a small battlemented moulding. Sharpe, Edmund, The Seven Periods of English Archit...(2012) 1adj protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through Syn protected kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss 2adj having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement Syn castellated, castled, embattled fancy not plain; decorative or ornamented |
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