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Meaning of "embrasures"
Embrasure (noun): In architecture, an opening in a wall or parapet that allows defensive fire through. Used in military and fortification contexts
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- plural of embrasure
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Embrasures had to be built to support the guns.
The remaining guns were mounted in hull embrasures.
From embrasures to the right and left.
They are equipped with embrasures and roundels.
The embrasures had been destroyed.
Its thick parapets with embrasures have been dismantled.
The lower parapet had at least five embrasures.
The walls and their embrasures are still visible.
The parapets were redesigned and given plunging embrasures.
There are embrasures especially in fortified castles and bunkers.
Lob them in the gun embrasures.
Only embrasures stuck out.
The casemates were then filled in and embrasures closed.
Embrasures have three functions.
It had more casemates with windows and embrasures.
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The rear wall has two embrasures and an entrance.
The embrasures are suitable for rifles or light machine guns.
It was unusual in having no embrasures for cannon in the main fort.
The embrasures are well proportioned.
It has a total of eighteen embrasures on its flanks and faces.
That part of a parapet which lies between two embrasures.
It has a total of nine embrasures on its flanks and faces.
The part of a parapet which lies between two embrasures.
The roof has seven gun embrasures and a lookout turret.
The facade is flanked by two cylindrical towers with rounded embrasures.
A wall offers a gallery and embrasures for the rifles.
Window embrasures are being plastered.
Below the windows were sealable embrasures for weapons.
These embrasures were covered by automatic rifle ports firing across their fronts.
They had loopholes and gun embrasures for canons.
There are two entrances with openings in the same direction as the embrasures.
There are two large embrasures intended for medium machine guns.
The roof featured a sixth level with embrasures for firing.
Embrasures are triangularly shaped spaces located between the proximal surfaces of adjacent teeth.
Again it was rebuilt and equipped with embrasures for artillery pieces.
The advanced post is a small blockhouse with three machine gun embrasures.
The landward walls had embrasures for muskets and small cannons.
The upper parapet was seven courses high and had five embrasures.
In the sides of the tower were embrasures to sweep the ditch with fire.
Crenels designed in later eras for use by cannons were also called embrasures.
The battlement with its embrasures is still visible in the inner wall.
Are pointed in the embrasures.
Vauban also enlarged the embrasures and added outer walls to the fortification.
The battery had a large parapet with nine embrasures and a magazine.
Through the embrasures they could fire at the enemy without being seen or excessively exposed.
Shelves of wood or concrete are fitted below the embrasures in the principal direction.
The battery had six guns which projected forward through earthwork embrasures.
The vaulted ceiling and window embrasures give this large room a cavernous air.
In the building itself you can still find a wide wall with embrasures.
Embrasures were blasted overlooking the Spanish lines.
