crenelated

English

Alternative forms

• crenellated

Verb

crenelated

1. simple past and past participle of crenelate

Adjective

crenelated (comparative more crenelated, superlative most crenelated)

1. Having crenellations or battlements.
2. Having a series of square indentations; (in particular, heraldry) embattled.
   • 1896, Honoré de Balzac, A Harlot's Progress, page 92:

     The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same quartered with that of Navarreins : gules, a fess crenelated or, surmounted by a knight's helmet, with the motto : Grands faits, grand lieu.

Derived terms

• crenelated molding

Translations

(all senses) — see crenellated

Anagrams

• candle tree, enterlaced