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1. A splay of a door or window. "Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers." (Longfellow)
2. An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle.
Origin: F, fr. Embraser, perh. Equiv. To ebraser to widen an opening; of unknown origin.
(01 Mar 1998)
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