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What does embrasure mean?

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Noun
  1. (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
  2. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
  3. (obsolete) An embrace.
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They were playing 'catch' around the back of the house and a little boy came to hide in the embrasure of the window.
I propped the M16 on a sandbag in the embrasure in front of me and squinted through the scope.
The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure.
A young woman sat in an embrasure on one of the highest parapets overlooking the moat of the castle.
And motioning her husband to a chair, she sat down in the embrasure of a window.
Then if each embrasure is exactly eleven bricks wide and each pier is exactly four bricks wide, these give dimensions very close to those obtained in the reconstructions.

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