Place is inclined to think that the idea of these crenellationswas suggested by those of a wooden palisade, a succession of rectangles being substituted for a triangle in order to meet the special conditions of the new material.
The triple row of crenellations we have given to this sanctuary or chapel was suggested by the altars and obelisks (Fig.
The crenellations of the observatory were destined for a much more lofty situation than those of the palace.
The crenellations we have been describing are those upon the retaining walls of Sargon's palace at Khorsabad.
The Assyrians seem to have been so pleased with these crenellations that they placed them upon such small things as steles and altars.
The crenellations are omitted here, but they may be seen in place on the left.
The crenellations of the palace walls consist of two rectangular masses, of unequal size, placed one upon the other.
These were finished at the top with open crenellationsin brick, along the base of which ran apparently a frieze of painted rosettes.
It was only possible to work the guns very slowly, and archers or crossbowmen were needed in support of them, to drive the defenders from the crenellations or loopholes of the battlements.
Apollodorus proposed to place a couple of rams in the upper part of the tower to destroy the crenellations of the wall.
When dividing the field there can be no difficulty about it, inasmuch as the crenellations are equally inwards and outwards from any point, and it should be noted that the term "crenelle" is almost as often used as "embattled.
The fess or the bar embattled is drawn with the crenellations on the upper side only, the under edge being plain unless the ordinary is described both as "embattled and counter-embattled.
Raguly is the same as embattled, with the crenellations put upon the slant.
A cold radiance bathed the familiar pastures, the houses of the village along the stream, and the turrets and crenellations of the castle at the head of the gorge.
If you are disposed to take a little more trouble with your towers, you can cover them with cement, and mould the crenellations and windows with your fingers.
Tin boxes or round tins polished to silvery brightness, with doors and windows and crenellations of black passe-partout, can be built into palaces of astonishing splendour, as you can see in the picture of the silver towers.
Perhaps to reconcile the irreconcilable, crenellations joining the towers were placed over the rose-window, and at either end of the portal, a few inches of Gothic carving were cut in the tower-wall.
Its crenellations and turrets are military and forceful, not ornate.
The crenellations are combined so as to form recessed rhomboids; they are even applied to the archivolt in the two doorways of corridors 5 and 6.
The crenellated motive of the east end is repeated at the west end, but the band between the crenellations and the flutes of the quarter-domes is omitted.
The crenellated motive of the stucco work in the mosque has its counterpart in the ornamental crenellations of Assyria and Persia, but it is used at Ukhaiḍir with singular freedom.
Above the crenellations are vestiges of a decorated band, and above the band the apex of the quarter-dome is fluted.
These crenellations form a parapet to the gangway which runs along the base of the second tower-like story.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crenellations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
