Embrasure
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EMBRASURE, in architecture, the opening in a battlement between the two raised solid portions or merlons, sometimes called a crenelle (see Battlement, Crenelle); also the splay of a window.
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Embrasure - A recess for a windows, door, etc., or a small opening in the wall or parapet of a fortified building, usually splayed on the inside.
embrasure - a window or door with slanting sides inward
entablature - the part of building above the columns, contains the frieze and cornice
knee brace (strut) - a diagonal support across the angle formed by two perpendicular members.
Embrasure: An opening in a thick wall for a portal or window, especially one with angled sides, so that the opening is larger on the inside than the outside. From the Old French embraser for "to cut at a slant." ...
Embrasure - The low segment of the altering high and low segments of a battlement.
Enceinte - The enclosure or fortified area of a castle.
Fascine - Huge bundle of brushwood for revetting ramparts or filling in ditches.
EMBRASURE
A splayed opening in a wall that frames an opening.
ENTABLATURE
In classical architecture, collective name for the three horizontal members (architrave, frieze and cornice) carried by a wall or a column.
embrasures : 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.
Embrasure
- a small opening in a wall or parapet, usually with splayed reveals which allows guns to be fired from cover.
See fortification.
Embrasure: the low segment of the altering high and low segments of a battlement
Escalade: scaling of a castle wall
Finial: a slender piece of stone used to decorate the tops of the merlons ...
Embrasure
the space between merlons on a battlemented wall, also known as a crenel
Enceinte ...
Embrasure, Embrazure: (1) An opening in the parapet or the wall of a work for firing guns through at an enemy. The embrasure was internally splayed to allow the gun to be swung through a greater arc, thus increasing its field of 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; ...
Double-splayed - embrasure whose smallest aperture is in the middle of the wall.
Drawbridge - a heavy timber platform built to span a moat between a gatehouse and surrounding land that could be raised when required to block an entrance.
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 parapet with alternating openings (embrasures) and raised sections (merlons), often used on castle walls and towers for defense purposes.
crenellation
A regular series of gaps in the low wall at the edge of a roof.
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.
This building is contained within a fortified enclosure known as the Makutani, which consists of two curtain walls fortified by square towers with embrasures. The wall was originally approximately 3 m high and crenellated.
A parapet with indentations or embrasures, with raised portions (merlons) between; also called crenellations.
What Is a "Battlement" or a "Crenellation"? What are "Embrasures" and "Merlons"?
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a usage for the decorative adaptation of the alternating merlons and embrasures on the parapet or breastwork of a rampart walk.
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The largest and most important of the figures are the over-life-size statues in the embrasures on either side of the doorways. Because they are attached to the colonnettes by which they are supported, they are known as statue-columns.
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. It has alternating openings (crenels or embrasures) and raised sections (merlons).
dripstone - a small, sometimes decorated stone incorporated into door or window jambs to throw rain water clear of the opening.
embattlements - A parapet with indentations or embrasures as seen here, at left, capping a medieval town gate.
 See also: Battlement, Castle, Crenel, Parapet, Architecture
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