单词 | crenelle |
例句 | Morgan speaks of the “direct line of self-love; the flecked and wavy line of pride; the clouded line of self-conceit; the indented line of envie; the crenelle line of ambition, &c.” The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Corrupted from crenelle; the holes in a battlement made for the purpose of shooting arrows and small shot. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A line, formed like the battlements on a wall or tower, is said to be embattled or crenelle. The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science Each bears a decoration resembling crenelles or Oriental ramparts broken into three steps; the lower set numbers eight, including the half ornaments at the corners, and the higher seven. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Notch -- N. notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple. embrasure, battlement, machicolation†; saw, tooth, crenelle†, scallop, scollop†, vandyke; depression; jag. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases The public edifices are six mosques, including the Jami, or cathedral, for Friday prayer: these buildings have queer little crenelles on whitewashed walls, and a kind of elevated summer-house to represent the minaret. First Footsteps in East Africa Sultan Mahmud, erected a minaret of Turkish shape and a neat structure of cut stone, whose crenelles make it look more like a place of defence than of prayer. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Round the upper edge of the basin were what looked like crenelles, and between these the swallow had built her nest. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo |
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