embrasure

Example Sentences

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They can also see gun embrasures in the basement, swords from medieval wars and a passageway, now closed off, that was used as an escape route.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2022

Allies and Morrison have lined the window embrasures of their largely white block with gold-coloured panels, so that they dazzle in the sunshine.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2014

The lily stem streams up in the long library windows and the flower peeps out of the embrasures above.

From Time Magazine Archive

The exhibition simulates the vault's green-lacquered walls backed by mirrored embrasures, where the cornucopia of gold, silver, ivory and rock-crystal objects is reflected in a dazzle of whirls and whorls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beyond the gun, beyond the embrasures, ramparts plunge forty feet to the green and white plumes of surf.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr