battlemented

How To Use battlemented In A Sentence

• With its mellow stonework and battlemented towers, mirrored on the surface of a broad moat skimmed on a summer day by turquoise dragonflies, Bodiam is everybody's idea of what a castle should look like. The House Impregnable
• The square battlemented tower with its octagonal lantern above is poorly executed, but otherwise the uncommon conception arrests attention and is worthy of praise: The parvise chamber over the porch, like many others, was for a long period the town school. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
• Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
• The law can no longer touch these princes of the realm personally, because adjacent to their palaces are their battlemented corporations, which can cover management malefactions by paying occasional fines as a routine cost of doing business. Reality bites
• A multitude of beautiful shapes appeared to be comprehended within its single outline; it was a kind of kaleidoscopic mystery, so rich a variety of aspects did it assume from each altered point of view, through the presentation of a different face, and the rearrangement of its peaks and pinnacles and the three battlemented towers, with the spires that shot heavenward from all three, but one loftier than its fellows. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
• Scottish corruption of "bratticing" or "brattishing," from O.Fr. _bretesche_, and meaning a battlemented parapet; apparently first used by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
• Almost immediately this was surrounded by a lower battery providing fourteen further gun positions, while about 1550 a battlemented entrance block was built containing the governor's lodgings.
• The whole was illuminated by the beams of the low and setting sun, who showed his ruddy front, like a warrior prepared for defence, over a huge battlemented and turreted wall of crimson and black clouds, which appeared like an immense Gothic fortress, into which the lord of day was descending. Redgauntlet
• A huge fireplace, painted in Italian style, dominates one wall and a glazed door leads on to a modern battlemented terrace looking on to the lake.
• There were three external walls, battlemented and turreted from space to space and at each angle, the second enclosure rising higher than the first, and being built so as to command the exterior defence in case it was won by the enemy; and being again, in the same manner, itself commanded by the third and innermost barrier. Quentin Durward