How to Use embrasure in a Sentence
embrasure
noun-
There were openings in the upper walls, accessible to the men on the ramparts, called embrasures, through which archers could shoot.
—
William Gurstelle,
Popular Mechanics,
2017-08-10
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Halfway down the building, that decoration even turns a somersault as a band of ornate terra cotta goes from sitting flat on the facade above the narrow embrasures to becoming a protruding cornice over the wider ones.
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Blake Gopnik,
New York Times,
2017-10-01
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