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What does embrasure mean?

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Noun
  1. (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
  2. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
  3. (obsolete) An embrace.
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She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary.
And motioning her husband to a chair, she sat down in the embrasure of a window.
She leans into the embrasure of the window and begins to wave to the ranks of shamrock-bedecked men and women marching along the Avenue.
The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure.
Leaning over an embrasure on Moon bastion, I could see the entire old town within the promontory ramparts.
They were playing 'catch' around the back of the house and a little boy came to hide in the embrasure of the window.

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