different between gunport vs embrasure

English

Etymology

gun +? port

Noun

gunport (plural gunports)

1. A hatch in the hull of a ship through which a cannon is fired.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle French embrasure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?e???(?)/

Noun

embrasure (plural embrasures)

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.
   • 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act IV, Scene 4, [3]

     And suddenly; where injury of chance / Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by / All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips / Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents / Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows / Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:

Translations

Further reading

• embrasure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

embraser +? -ure

Noun

embrasure f (plural embrasures)

1. embrasure

Further reading

• “embrasure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).