embrasure

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embrasure

/ɪmˈbɹeɪʒə(ɹ)/

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From French embrasure, from embras(er) + -ure, from Old French embrasure (“cut at a slant, make a groove or furrow”), from em- + braser (“cut at a slant”).

noun embrasures

Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired. Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically)
Similar: crenel[Appendix:Glossary
figuratively Any small protected space. She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.
The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside. When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.
obsolete An embrace. And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:

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noun any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement

Español	tronera
中文	垛口 duǒkǒu
Português	troneira
Français	embrasure, ébrasure
Deutsch	Scharte, Schießscharte
Ελληνικά	πολεμίστρα polemístra, μασγάλι masgáli, σμαγδάλι smagdáli
Русский	амбразу́ра ambrazúra, бойни́ца bojníca
العربية	مَزْغَل mazḡal

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@misc{embrasure_2026,
  title = {embrasure},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/embrasure},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}