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crenelated
[ kren-l-ey-tid ]
adjective
- furnished with crenelations, as a parapet or molding, in the manner of a battlement.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crenelated1
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Example Sentences
Several episcopals and their servants, entrenched upon a crenelated terrace, fired down upon us with cross-bows.
The crenelated battlements were transformed into mere parapets, the chemins de ronde into terraces and hanging gardens.
Between the circles the ducks are repeated, facing a shield enriched with rows of the crenelated pattern surmounted by a vine.
The wind moaned about the crenelated turrets; sentinels of the Pisans stood everywhere, alert for ambush.
Shall (or Quetta as we know it now) is described as a town of about 300 houses, surrounded by a slight crenelated wall.
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