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单词 castellation
释义 castellation|kæstəˈleɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. castellātiōn-em, n. of action f. castellā-re: see above and -ation.]
The building of castles; the furnishing of a house with battlements; concr. a fortified or castellated structure; a battlement.
1818in Todd.1853H. Jenkins Colchest. Castle, The whole system of Norman castellation.1858Lond. Rev. Oct. 123 We are treading, as it were, upon the battlements of this immense natural castellation [Snowdon].1861E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepulchres II. xx. 176 The castellations and battlements of this [the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem] are so quaint as to be quite ludicrous.
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