embrasure
/ɪmˈbreɪʒə(r)/
词源链
- 英语English
embrasure
词源说明
From French embrasure, from embras(er) + -ure, from Old French embrasure (“cut at a slant, make a groove or furrow”), from em- + braser (“cut at a slant”).
释义
名词noun
- 1(architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
- 2figurativeAny small protected space.
- 3The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.