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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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From the embrasure of his prison Carlos looked upon the terrible spectacle.
Leaning over an embrasure on Moon bastion, I could see the entire old town within the promontory ramparts.
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.
She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary.
Then if each embrasure is exactly eleven bricks wide and each pier is exactly four bricks wide, these give dimensions very close to those obtained in the reconstructions.
They were adobe bricks, and the embrasure enabled him to tell their thickness.

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