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crenel

English

Alternative forms

  • crenelle

Etymology

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (notch).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k??n?l/

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

  1. The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
    • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 44:
      They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing […].

Translations


Old French

Noun

crenel m (oblique plural creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative singular creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative plural crenel)

  1. Alternative form of kernel

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crinel

English

Noun

crinel (plural crinels)

  1. (obsolete, falconry) Alternative form of crinet

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