battlement
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A gun sits atop a buried battlement under the flags, part of a vast underground network of German defenses.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2019
But in the six decades that the Henderson Castle loomed over 16th Street NW, it was probably the city’s most impressive faux battlement.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2017
Their favorite part of the home is its roof terrace, located in one of the battlement towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2016
Hairdressers with ideas above their stations; dreary waifs wilting in garrets; talking statues; battlement suicides; to say nothing of the one with the Viking hats.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2011
Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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