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battlement

[bat-l-muhnt] / ˈbæt l mənt /


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One night, as she walks with Donatello along a battlement, they see the model nearby, dressed as a friar.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

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

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

He leaned against the battlement, the sea crashing beneath him, the black stone rough beneath his fingers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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