Definition of battlement
:a parapet with open spaces that surmounts a wall and is used for defense or decoration
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Bronn and Jaime stand on the battlements, looking out over Daenerys’ Unsullied army and Dothraki allies.
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But if today’s nationalists and alt-righters really charged the battlements under his banner, why is Trump, and not Buchanan, at the vanguard?
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Maybe razor wire and battlements and mantraps besides.
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Deep in a valley in the mountains of County Wicklow, Ireland, is a hunting lodge, crowned with battlements and nestled beside Lough Tay—a lake that, with its dark waters and white-sand beach, resembles a pint of Guinness.
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The modernist genius took the few remaining elements of the medieval fortress—which used to be a Roman defense tower—and devised a new castle with battlements and straight lines that are not very common in its style.
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Origin and Etymology of battlement
Middle English batelment, from Anglo-French *bataillement, from batailler to fortify with battlements — more at battle
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