Kindly claarify the meaning of crenellated gateway

English translation: crenellated means

05:43 Apr 11, 2003
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English term or phrase: Kindly claarify the meaning of crenellated gateway
The first card you have chosen is the moon. The dogs sit guard by the side of a pool out of which crawls a crab. A path leads from the pool to a crenellated gateway composed of two towers.
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Selected answer:crenellated means
Explanation:
having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement of a castle. A piece of furniture or cutlery could also be crenellated. An example would be the images in the references below.
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Marcus Malabad
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5 +2crenellated means
Marcus Malabad
4crenellated gateway
Сергей Лузан
4a passage flanked by towers with battlements
Buffalo
4The Moon is another Major Arcana of Tarot
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crenellated means


Explanation:
having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement of a castle. A piece of furniture or cutlery could also be crenellated. An example would be the images in the references below.



    Reference: http://civilwarfortifications.com/dictionary/xgc-007.html
    Reference: http://gamingetc.safeshopper.com/113/839.htm?433
Marcus Malabad
Canada
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crenellated gateway


Explanation:
means an entrance, that is shaped like embrasure, gun-port, loop-hole or gun-slot.
Good luck, QC!

Сергей Лузан
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a passage flanked by towers with battlements


Explanation:
crenellated (or crenelated):
adj 1: having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" adj 1: having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"
2: (of a building) having turrets and battlements in the style of a castle

Check out this website:
http://www.castlewales.com/caernarf.html

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The Moon is another Major Arcana of Tarot


Explanation:
The fragment that clarifies the meaning of two towers here:

This card indicates the turning point. The Initiate has here let go the guiding hand of his Guru, who would symbolize the direct sunlight, and henceforth must walk the Path lighted only by the Moon, his own intuition.

The towers between which he must go are mighty strongholds, on the one hand the Tower of Ambition and Black Magic, whose snares and glamours are spread for his feet ; on the other hand the Tower of Discouragement and faintheartedness whose battlements are armed by Giant Despair and amidst whose swift flying arrows he must wend his way.

crenellated passage means there are openings in towers' wall through which they shoot arrows to anyone who passes between.

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The picture (La Lune):

http://www.geocities.com/mirkwood222/ow7.html

Kirill Semenov
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