battlemented

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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adjective protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through
adjective having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement

From battlement + -ed.

Our home while in the town was one of the best of the battlemented towers, and consisted of a room sixteen feet square, on a stone platform. — Southern Arabia, J. Theodore (James Theodore) Bent
Of the structure which existed in the fourteenth century, the chateau of Rambouillet retains to-day only a great battlemented tower, and some low-lying buildings attached to it. — Royal Palaces and Parks of France, M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Between the old and the new Rue du Temple, there was the Temple, a sinister group of towers, lofty, erect, and isolated in the middle of a vast, battlemented enclosure. — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo

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