OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 39519

embattled

/ɛmˈbætl̩d/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
almenado
Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
The lofty towers of the Castle overhang the western approach to the Bridge, and the line passes into Conway through an opening pierced in the embattled wall, which entirely surroun…
almenado
Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.
There are but three irregular lines mentioned in Glover's Roll, viz: 1. Undée (ondée) or wavy, 2. Engrailed, and 3. Indented or Dancettée. Later heralds have added three more: Inve…
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