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Embrasure
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
in architecture, the opening in a battlement between the two raised solid portions or merlons, sometimes called a crenelle (see Battlement, Crenelle); also the splay of a window.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Embrasure'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/e/embrasure.html. 1910.