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单词 abattlement
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abattlementn.

Forms: Middle English abataylment.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: abattle v.1, -ment suffix; French embataillement.
Etymology: Either < abattle v.1 + -ment suffix, or < an unattested alteration (with prefix substitution: see a- a- prefix5) of Anglo-Norman embataillement (1378: see embattlement n.). Compare battlement n.
Obsolete. rare.
A battlement.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements
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This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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