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語源

From 中期英語 batilment, from Old French bataillement, earlier bastillement (“fortification”), from bastillier (“to fortify, to equip with battlements”), from bastille (“fortress”) (see bastion). By surface analysis, battle +‎ -ment.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: [ˈbætəɫmənt]

名詞

battlement (plural battlements)

1. In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro‎:

     Towers, and battlements it sees
     Bosom'd high in tufted trees,
     Where perhaps some beauty lies,
     The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.

2. Any high wall for defense.
3. (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.

同意語

• (sense, indented parapet) crenellation

派生語

• battlemented

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “battlement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.