Embrasure

Origin

From Middle French embrasure.

Full definition of embrasure

Noun

1. (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
2. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
• 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 155:Now he stands in a window embrasure, Liz's prayer book in hand.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.
• ShakespeareOur locked embrasures.