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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

- castles in Aosta Valley, and for its architecture and its many towers and battlemented walls has become one of the major tourist attractions of the region....
- Rathfarnham, South Dublin, Ireland. Originally a semi-fortified and battlemented structure it underwent extensive alterations in the 18th century. It...
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- State. The old city belongs to the Malwa region and is surrounded by a battlemented wall. The district is now famous for the country's most innovative and...
- barrel vaulted rooms in the ground floor. Externally in addition to the battlemented decoration there was a rope-styled string course. Although the castle...
- Common features borrowed from 16th- and 17th-century houses included battlemented gateways, crow-stepped gables, pointed turrets and machicolations. The...
- slate roof, and is in Jacobethan style. The building incorporates a battlemented tower with an octagonal corner turret. It was built between 1831 and...
- 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...
- bow-ended square tower with segmental pointed windows at other end of front. Battlemented and machicolated parapet. The side of the house is not castellated, but...