: an opening with sides flaring outward in a wall or parapet of a fortification usually for allowing the firing of cannon
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: a recess of a door or window
Illustration of embrasure
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Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThere were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot. William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 11 Apr. 2019 Halfway down the building, that decoration even turns a somersault as a band of ornate terra cotta goes from sitting flat on the facade above the narrow embrasures to becoming a protruding cornice over the wider ones. Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2017 See More
Word History
Etymology
French, from obsolete embraser to widen an opening