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noun

Embrasure n. An embrace. (Obs.) "Our locked embrasures."

Embrasure n.

(Arch.) A splay of a door or window. "Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers."

(Fort.) An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle.

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... passing, and the colonel effected his escape from his fair companion and joined them. Several voices called for him at the piano, and, seating himself before the instrument, he commenced a brilliant performance. In a few moments he became conscious of the form of Louise standing in the embrasure of a window near by, her whole soul apparently absorbed in the music. When he arose she had disappeared. He sauntered slowly to the hall door, and stepped forth upon the piazza. As he paced slowly ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

... desert, revived for him—and to the increase of his keenness—by the tremendous force of analogy. He found himself at moments—once he had placed his single light on some mantel-shelf or in some recess—stepping back into shelter or shade, effacing himself behind a door or in an embrasure, as he had sought of old the vantage of rock and tree; he found himself holding his breath and living in the joy of the instant, the supreme suspense created by big ...

— The Jolly Corner • Henry James

... party in the little battery could see the French officers searching the opening with their eyes, and eagerly talking together; but they did not hesitate, apparently not realising that the place had been put in a state of defence, for the gun was drawn back, and the embrasure was of so rugged a construction that it did not resemble the ...

— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn

... had been blown up in a fortress—the castle of Danvilliers in Luxembourg, of which he was governor—where all perished save his wife and himself, and, when they came to dig among the ruins, they excavated at last the ancient couple, protected by the framework of a window in the embrasure of which they had been seated, without a scratch or a bruise. He was a Biscayan by descent, but born in Medina del Campo. A strict disciplinarian, very resolute and pertinacious, he had the good fortune to be ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... the great oak-ceilinged room down below, where a fire burned in the stone embrasure, and the soft lights of candles in silver candelabra made only more tenebrous the darkness overhead. The Maimed Man leaned back in his chair and peered with narrowed eyelids through the smoke of his cigar at the long table stretching away from him. For a moment ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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