English Dictionary

embrasure

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪmˈbɹeɪʒə(ɹ)/

名詞

比喩的用法 廃用

(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. / (figuratively) Any small protected space.

日本語の意味

城壁や要塞などの防御施設において、山垣（マーロン）の隙間など、弾薬を射撃するために設けられた開口部 / 比喩的に、安全で守られた狭い空間

The archer peered through an embrasure in the battlement, scanning the valley below for approaching enemies.

弓兵は城壁の狭間から身をのぞかせ、谷底を見張って近づく敵を探した。

意味（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.

But there were less casualties than might have been expected, and the barricade rose steadily, a wall of concrete two feet thick, with embrasures for two machine-guns and a small field gun.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Any small protected space.

She had a special seat there, a little embrasure between two upright slabs of sandstone, which was sheltered and private.

意味（3）

The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.

When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.

意味（4）

(obsolete) An embrace.

And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:

embrasures （ plural ）