Crenelle
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CRENELLE (an O. Fr. word for "notch," mod. creneau; the origin is obscure; cf. "cranny"), a term generally considered to mean an embrasure of a battlement, ...
crenelate - supply with battlements
crenel, crenellate
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A crenel (also spelled as "crenelle" and alternatively known as a "carnel", "embrasure", "loop" or "wheeler'") is an indentation in the 15th century from Old French and comes ultimately from the Latin word crena, "notch". Its opposite is the merlon.
On a castle or fort, a battlement or crenellation is a parapet with open spaces for shooting. The raised portions of a battlement ("A" in illustration) are called merlons, and the openings ("B") are called embrasures.
Crenelated
Notched or indented, usually with respect to tops of walls, as in battlements.
Crenel - The low segment of the alternating high and low segments of a battlement.
Crenelation - Battlements at the top of a tower or wall.
Crocket - Curling leaf-shape.
CRENELLATED A notched parapet, usually associated with fortifying a medieval building; also known as a battlement.
CUPOLA A small domed lantern or turret on a roof.
CUSP The point formed by the intersection of two foils in Gothic tracery.
crenellation A regular series of gaps in the low wall at the edge of a roof.
cresting A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.
CRENELLATED Having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement on a castle. The parapets at the top of the towers of the Churches of St Katherine, Teversal; the two St. Mary Magdalene churches; St. Helen's Church, Selston; and St.
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crocket capital : A simplified adaptation of the Corinthian capital. The crocket capital was commonly used in the Gothic period. See also column, capital, abacus or impost block.
Crenelation
Having battlements.
Illustration from Central Presbyterian Church ...
crenellation : On a castle or fort, a battlement or a crenellation is a parapet with open spaces for shooting. The raised portions of a battlement are called merlons, and the openings are called embrasures.
Crenellated
having a series of indentations, like those in a battlement.
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Crenelation
Also called a battlement. This is a parapet (a low wall) constructed at the top of a larger wall for defensive purposes, behind which defenders can shelter or fight.
crenelation or battlement
A parapet with alternating openings (embrasures) and raised sections (merlons), often used on castle walls and towers for defense purposes.
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Crenellations
Another term for battlements, but used to describe decorative battlements. Often these are made of ashlar or fine brick and include arrow slits.
Crenellated - Alternating indentations of a parapet. (Originally for defense, and for firing missiles through).
Cresting - Decoration along the ridge of a roof. Usually perforated cast - or wrought iron or terra-cotta.
Crenellation
- same as battlements. Traditionally seen as being defensive, recent research suggests that "a licence to crenelate" may have been granted more for heraldic reasons, as a mark of grace and favour.
Crenelation
Also crenellation, these are a series of depressed openings, like a battlement, but with more space between the openings.
Crenelation: a notched battlement made up of alternate crenels (openings) and merlons (square sawteeth)
Cross-wall: an internal dividing wall in a great tower
Curtain wall: a castle wall enclosing a courtyard ...
Crenel or Crenelle
the space between merlons on a battlemented wall, also known as an embrasure
Crenellation ...
Crenel, Crenelle: The part of a parapet which is indented alternating with the solid uprights called merlons, which allowed the defenders to fire at the enemy while gaining protection from the merlons against the returned fire.
Battlement: Parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between: Crenelations; A narrow wall built along the outer edge of the wall walk to protect soldiers against attack; ...
Each gateway consists of an arched opening flanked by two huge semi-circular bastion towers with battered walls, arrow slits and pointed crenellations.
Defensive parapet, composed of merlons (solid) and crenels or crenelles (embrasures or openings) through which archers could shoot; sometimes called crenellation. Also used decoratively.
PARAPET A parapet is a low stone or brick wall at the top of a building. A crenelated parapet has rhythmic breaks in the wall to create a pattern of battlements.
Castellated - Decorated with battlements (a parapet with alternating indentations and raised portions); also called crenellation. Building with battlements are usually brick or stone.
Battlement - A parapet with alternating indentations or embrasures and raised portions or merlons; also called crenellation.
San Giminiano ...
We also committed ourselves richly to elaborate the tower[s] and the upper crenelations of the front, both for the beauty of the church and, should circumstances require it, for practical purposes.
 See also: Architecture, House, Battlement, Tower, Crenellation
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