Definitions for embrasure

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embrasure em·bra·sure

Spelling: [em-brey-zher]

IPA: /ɛmˈbreɪ ʒər/

Embrasure is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in embrasure (abeemrrsu).

Definitions for embrasure

noun

1. (in fortification) an opening, as a loophole or crenel, through which missiles may be discharged.
2. Architecture. a splayed enlargement of a door or window toward the inner face of a wall.
3. Dentistry. the space between adjacent teeth.

Origin of embrasure

1695-1705; French, equivalent to embras(er) to enlarge a window or door opening, make an embrasure (apparently the same v. as embraser to set on fire (see embrace<

Examples for embrasure

They were adobe bricks, and the embrasure enabled him to tell their thickness.

She sat with him in the adjoining room, in the embrasure of the window, for the rest of the evening.

The gun fired through an embrasure or loophole in the wall of the room.

From the embrasure of his prison Carlos looked upon the terrible spectacle.

On every embrasure and gallery, on every terrace and platform, it was the same.

And motioning her husband to a chair, she sat down in the embrasure of a window.

Miltoun was standing in the embrasure of a window above the terrace.

Lady Stafford is sitting within the embrasure of the window.

But her aunt, turning her back to her, moved into the embrasure of the window.

Gregory and his daughter were talking together in the embrasure of a window.