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BATTLEMENTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does battlemented mean?
• BATTLEMENTED (adjective)
The adjective BATTLEMENTED has 2 senses:
1. protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through
2. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Familiarity information: BATTLEMENTED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through
Similar:
protected (kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
Synonyms:
battlemented; castellated; castled; embattled
Context example:
a crenelated molding
Similar:
fancy (not plain; decorative or ornamented)
Context examples
From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. I lingered till the sun went down amongst the trees, and sank crimson and clear behind them.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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