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单词 crenellate
释义

crenellatecrenelatev.

/ˈkrɛnɛleɪt/
Etymology: < French crénel-er + -ate suffix3. The l has been doubled partly after crenelled; partly perhaps after assumed Latin *crēnella, diminutive of crēna.
transitive. To furnish with battlements, to embattle; to furnish with embrasures or loopholes.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > wall [verb (transitive)] > furnish with embrasures
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carnilate1577
crenellate1851
kernellate1851
embrasure1853
crenel1883
1851 T. H. Turner Some Acct. Domest. Archit. I. 157 (note) Laurence de Ludlow had licence to crenellate his mansion of Stoke-Say.
1875 C. Clery Minor Tactics xvii. 252 Walls that have been loopholed or crenelated, afford material aid.

Derivatives

ˈcrenellated adj. (also crenelated) embattled; also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [adjective] > having embrasures
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corneledc1330
kernelled1706
crenated1822
crenellated1823
crenelled1832
kernellated1861
embrasured1877
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Crenellated parapet (Fort.).
1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. iv. vii. 301 Crenellated castles.
1869 tr. Lenormant's Anc. Hist. East I. iv. iv. 459 The roofs of Assyrian edifices were flat and terraced, surrounded by a crenelated battlement.
1881 Athenæum 4 June 754 Crenellated mountain tops half clad in snow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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