Embrasure
Embrasure (?; 135) , noun
[See Embrace.]
An embrace. [Obsolete]
Our locked embrasures.
Embrasure (277) , noun
[French, from embraser, perh. equiv. to ébraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.]
1.
(Architecture) A splay of a door or window.
Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure,
Sat the lovers.
2.
(Fortification) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.