embattlement
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English
Etymology
Noun
embattlement (countable and uncountable, plural embattlements)
- (countable) A battlement.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/6/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.
- 1970, Anthony Langham, Myrtle Ternstrom, Lundy:
- Embattlements and towers may have formed part of the original structure […]
- (uncountable) The state of being embattled.