noun
definition
Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
definition
The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
definition
An embrace.
Examples of embrasures in a Sentence
An ideal feminine smile tends to have more definite round embrasures.
The North Pier can just be made out through the gun embrasures.
Two door embrasures have their arches also turned in long slabs.
It is two story, with 1 75mm turret on the top floor, and two 81mm mortar embrasures in the lower floor.
The walls were thickened to 3.5 foot and standard Bren gun embrasures were built into the 5 front and side walls.
Further along the lane, set now deep among trees, was a concrete pillbox, its embrasures facing inwards toward the airfield.