English Dictionary

crenellation

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌkɹɛnəlˈeɪʃən/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.

日本語の意味

城壁や塹壕などの上部に設けられた、定期的な矩形の切れ込み（開口部）が連続する装飾や機能構造。中世ヨーロッパの防御建築において、弓矢や他の武器の射出用の開口部として用いられた。

Many visitors paused to photograph the castle's crenellation as the sun dipped below the horizon.

多くの見物客は、太陽が地平線の下に沈むとき、城の歯状の胸壁を撮影しようと立ち止まった。

意味（1）

(countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form of multiple, regular, rectangular spaces in the top of the wall, through which arrows or other weaponry may be shot, especially as used in medieval European architecture.

This villa was long and low and white, and severe after its manner : for upon and about it were none of those playful ebullitions of taste, such as conical towers, domed roofs, embattlements, statues, coloured tiles and crenellations, such as are dear to architects of villas all the world over.

意味（2）

(uncountable) The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle.

意味（3）

(countable) Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example around the bezel of a flashlight.

crenellations （ plural ）