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What is a crenellation?

What is a crenellation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.
  2. The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.
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Hardy asserted himself more boldly outside, where he restored some ornamental towers and crenellation that disappeared years ago.
After calling in all the local idols and putting them through a shredder, the General directed Filament to begin crenellation.
Charles Filament, a French historian of a future time, is invited to speak about French crenellation at the inaugural of the latest in the series of bunkers established under the Paris Faubourg Art Depot.
Recent excavations in O Street N. W. have brought to light examples of French crenellation introduced by Filament, as well as decadent specimens that can safely be dated a little later.
He pointed out a place where the wall's crenellation ran into the open window of a tower — the kind of thing that happens when you use two different contractors.
But what a hedgehog it turned out to be: folded from a single sheet of paper, each crenellation sharp as the crease in a new pair of trousers, it captures the very essence of hedgehogness.

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