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English
Noun
machicolade (plural machicolades)
- A machicolation.
1861, Charles Reade, chapter 20, in The Cloister and the Hearth, volume 2, London: Trübner & Co., page 320:The efforts of the besieging force were concentrated against a space of about two hundred and fifty yards, containing two curtains, and two towers, one of which was the square barbican, the other had a pointed roof that was built to overlap, resting on a stone machicolade, and by this means a row of dangerous crenelets between the roof and the masonry grinned down at the nearer assailants .
1924, Cyril Ranger Gull, “16: 'All's Well'”, in When the World Reeled, London: Ward, Lock, page 307:He staggered to the battlements and leant against them and was sick unto death. Pressing his hot brow against the cool granite of the machicolade there came an overpowering desire for sleep
2021 January 18, Guy Thorne, “5: The three trees of Monkshood Glade”, in The Serf, Litres, →ISBN:The crenelets, which grinned between the roof and the machicolade at the top of Outfangthef, were cleared of all obstructions.
2022 September 16, Guy Thorne, The City in the Clouds, DigiCat:So high was the roof on which we stood that only one of the towers or cupolas rose much above us. 'There is some one who isn't much troubled by sub-lunary affairs,' I said, pointing over the machicolade.
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