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Definition of Battlemented

Battlemented
Battlemented Bat"tle*ment*ed (-m[e^]nt*[e^]d), a. Having battlements. A battlemented portal. --Sir W. Scott.
Battlement
Battlement Bat"tle*ment (-ment), n. [OE. batelment; cf. OF. bataillement combat, fr. batailler, also OF. bastillier, bateillier, to fortify. Cf. Battle, n., Bastile, Bastion.] (Arch.) (a) One of the solid upright parts of a parapet in ancient fortifications. (b) pl. The whole parapet, consisting of alternate solids and open spaces. At first purely a military feature, afterwards copied on a smaller scale with decorative features, as for churches.

Meaning of Battlemented from wikipedia

- and within a formal garden, the castle is built in stone. A central battlemented tower includes the main entrance, and there are also smaller towers to...
- Scottish baronial style are the crow-stepped gables, dormer windows, and battlemented porte-cochère. Balmoral is private property and, unlike the monarch's...
- light can come. The mouth of the gorge, Helm's Gate, was closed by the battlemented Deeping Wall, 20 ft (6.1 m) tall, and wide enough for four men to stand...
- plinth on six claw-and-ball feet. Both masts have main and top-sails, and battlemented fighting-tops are made from gold. These items are displa**** in the new...
- Façades The Old Cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal, is fortress-like and battlemented. The two central openings are deeply recessed. Church of St. Trophime...
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- Walter Heron to the Chipchase heiress. He built a m****ive four-storey battlemented tower house on the site of an earlier house in the mid-14th century....
- 31 of 1678: ...On a blue field shield, a very thick and round tower, battlemented, an inescutcheon of fifteen partsseven blue and eight gold, on each...
- round their rims, beneath which are representations of a turreted or battlemented wall, thought to depict Hadrian's Wall. The Latin and Romano-Celtic names...