A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 154
oining crenel, In a battlement in thesense A, above. This use, though not recog-nized by the dictionaries, is warranted by tlioconunon use of the plural form, battlcnient.s, forthe general line or front of such a parajjet. C. A decorative fringe or crest showingagainst the sky or against a… … Battlemext oe Brick from a Garden AVai.l; \exice. battlements are often pierced with ornamentalopenings, or cut into elaborate tracery, leavingnothing but slender bars of stone. Some formsof battlements are traceable to a defensive pur-]wse, liut, as generally .seen in buildings whichremain intact,…
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