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Recent Examples of battlement
The visit commences in the main piazzetta, home to the 12-century Saint Thomas Becket of Canterbury church and the medieval castle whose battlements loom over the village.
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Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2024
Pedestrians sauntered along a row of European flagship boutiques nestled in battlements of creamy limestone: Gucci, YSL, Prada, Louis Vuitton.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Hike up the road to the summit on the back side of Mt. Ballyhoo to see some of the old battlements.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
The castle now belongs to the family of an Italian lawyer who purchased the fortified island in 1912 and began restoration of its battlements, churches, convents, crypts and gardens.
—Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2023
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Jaclyn Degiorgio, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2024
Pedestrians sauntered along a row of European flagship boutiques nestled in battlements of creamy limestone: Gucci, YSL, Prada, Louis Vuitton.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Hike up the road to the summit on the back side of Mt. Ballyhoo to see some of the old battlements.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
The castle now belongs to the family of an Italian lawyer who purchased the fortified island in 1912 and began restoration of its battlements, churches, convents, crypts and gardens.
—Joe Yogerst, CNN, 11 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for battlement
Noun
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And to allay the fears of brownstone-dwellers: A cornice is not a parapet, so most brownstones don’t actually have parapets.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
9 Oct. 2024
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About 100 parapet caps were taken from a bridge near Ryecroft Lane and tossed into Harpeth River sometime on Aug. 7, Franklin Police said.—
Gabrielle Chenault,
Nashville Tennessean,
12 Aug. 2024
Noun
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Lunch salads from the organic garden and thali suppers are served in surprising nooks: in the garden, under a lush canopy of vines, or on a rounded rampart.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Dec. 2023
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Since the trial began, the Amazons have ventured out about three times a week to paste messages on both sides of the ramparts, but mostly concentrating on the intra-muros area near the courthouse.—
Catherine Porter,
New York Times,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But storybook fortresses aren’t exclusive to mythical kingdoms and romantic tales.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Gothic fortress on West 23rd Street was once home to many of the twentieth century’s beautiful and damned—Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, and Sid Vicious among them.—
Ian Malone,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Homes and buildings will thus resemble small forts more than ever before in California.—
Thomas Elias,
The Mercury News,
4 Feb. 2025
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This patch—corresponding to modern-day Bertie County, less than 100 miles inland from Roanoke Island—was found to conceal a red-and-blue symbol resembling a fort.—
Barbara A. Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Image The Keep By Jennifer Egan This book has it all: castles, caves, childhood nightmares dragged back into the light.—
M.L. Rio,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The cast and crew who assembled in the castle were subsequently said to have been totally accepting of the ghost of Lady Sophie, who haunts Amhuinnsuidhe.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His ideas found broader application solving logistical problems during the Napoleonic Era — for instance, identifying the most efficient way to build fortifications, in order to minimize the costs of transporting materials across Europe.—
Siobhan Roberts,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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In addition to cannabis oil, this version gets more healthy fortification and great flavor from hulled hemp seeds.—
Rowan Briggs,
The Mercury News,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Which is why so much of Washington is looking to the courts as the bulwark against Trumpism’s total domination.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
10 Feb. 2025
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The crisis threatens to overturn a decades-long effort by the United States and EU to preserve Georgian democracy, which has served as a bulwark against the Kremlin’s growing influence in the Black Sea region.—
Anthony Borden,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Dominated by the enormous Pyramid of the Sun, the Pyramid of the Moon, and a citadel, which sits along the 2.5-mile-long Avenue of the Dead, the site awed even the Aztecs, who wondered what vanished civilization could have created such a monumental city.—
John Newton,
AFAR Media,
24 Jan. 2025
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On the one hand, the country is an economic citadel, packed with resources and blessed by ocean borders that shield it from invasion while connecting it to global trade.—
Michael Beckley,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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