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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 309 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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EMBRASURE , in See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture, the opening in a See also:

BATTLEMENT (probably from a lost Fr. form bastillement, cf. mod. Fr. bataille, from Med. Lat. bastilia, towers, which is derived from Ital. bastire, to build, cf. Fr. bdti, ; the English word was, however, early connected with " battle ")

battlement between the two raised solid portions or merlons, sometimes called a See also:

CRENELLE (an O. Fr. word for " notch," mod. creneau; the origin is obscure; cf. " cranny ")

crenelle (see BATTLEMENT, CRENELLE) ; also the splay of a window.

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