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, ...
crenelle - one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) ...
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.
Crenel or Crenelle
the space between merlons on a battlemented wall, also known as an embrasure
Crenellation ...
Defensive parapet, composed of merlons (solid) and crenels or crenelles (embrasures or openings) through which archers could shoot; sometimes called crenellation. Also used decoratively.
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.
Also crenellation, these are a series of depressed openings, like a battlement, but with more space between the openings. A crenelle (or kernel) in medieval times was an opening in a battlement, ...
 See also: Battlement, Crenel, Embrasure, Battlements, Architecture
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