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embrasure
(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
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But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun.
(figurative) Any small protected space.
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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.
(obsolete) An embrace.
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