What's the difference between battlement and crenel?
Battlement
Definition:
(n.) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications.
(n.) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film.
(2) But the setting was spectacular : the Disney domes of St Basil’s Cathedral loomed over Nemtsov’s left shoulder, the Kremlin’s russet battlements over his right.
(3) The nightly experience of seeing the ghost of his fictional father walking the battlements proved too much for the actor, troubled as he was by his unresolved relationship with his own dead father, the poet laureate Cecil Day Lewis.
(4) It was announced last year by prime minister Manmohan Singh in his annual address from the battlements of Delhi's famous Red Fort, the bastion of the Mughal emperors.
(5) I stared at the fortress he was building as my laptop purred, loading details: the towers and battlements and a giant front door.
(6) Only the free market, in the shape of Branson, can bust the battlements of elitism and let the (mega-rich) masses come rushing in.
(7) Only four years ago, it was easy for a traveller to stand on the battlements and imagine how those who held it exercised control over hundreds of miles of the surrounding fertile land.
(8) At the capture of Troy, though this is not told in The Iliad, Andromache's child is thrown from the battlements of the conquered city by the Greeks, and she is carried off into captivity.
(9) Miriam and I haven't had to move into some battlement in Whitehall.
(10) Leaving Copenhagen you sail out past the Little Mermaid, along the coast by the Louisiana Art Gallery and Elsinore Castle, where you may glimpse the ghost of Hamlet’s father stalking the battlements.
Crenel
Definition:
(n.) See Crenelle.
(n.) An embrasure or indentation in a battlement; a loophole in a fortress; an indentation; a notch. See Merlon, and Illust. of Battlement.
(n.) Same as Crenature.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aerial shots along the route – taking in the crenellated ruins of Dunluce Castle, the vertiginous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, the basalt stacks of the Giant's Causeway, and the seaside villages of Ballycastle, Cushendun, Cushendall and Carnlough – will be a pleasant surprise for viewers who have an entirely different image of Northern Ireland.
(2) Behind the high, crenellated walls of Kigali prison, 7,000 prisoners are crammed into a space that was built to accommodate perhaps a tenth of that number.
(3) Its crenellated edges are deep purple and its eight tentacles look like soft pink coral.
(4) The most notable morphological effect of the antibiotic was ruffling or crenelation of the outer membrane, which resulted ultimately in its separation from the inner membrane.
(5) • Doubles from €84 B&B, +351 258 808 200, meloalvimhouse.com 4 Pauper’s castle , Porto Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two metro stops from Porto’s centre, Castelo Santa Catarina is a crenellated Gothic palace set in its own mature gardens.
(6) Jamie Vardy ’s having a(nother) party: he’s going to get married at Peckforton Castle in Cheshire – actually not a castle, just a big and kind-of-oldish house with crenellations – on 25 May.
(7) We stopped at Pembroke Castle to while away a little more of the drizzle, wondering if this massive crenellated fortification from the 12th century was also, in its day, considered a monstrous carbuncle.
(8) The sexual characters of the parapodial cirri (male and female swellings, male crenellations) are always expressed on stump or regenerate according to the genetic sex.
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