An embrace. [Obs.] "Our locked embrasures."" Shak.
A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.
An aperture with slant sides in a wall or parapet, through which cannon are pointed and discharged; a crenelle. See Illust. of Casemate.
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