embrasure

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
    — Near-synonym: crenel (sometimes hyponymous technically)
  2. Any small protected space. figuratively
    — She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.
  3. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
    — When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.
  4. An embrace. obsolete
    — And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:

词形变化

embrasures plural

词汇关系

衍生词
embrasured

词源

From French embrasure, from embras(er) + -ure, from Old French embrasure (“cut at a slant, make a groove or furrow”), from em- + braser (“cut at a slant”).
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