Usually means: Opening for shooting or viewing.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word embrasure:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrasure: Merriam-Webster
  2. embrasure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embrasure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embrasure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embrasure: Vocabulary.com
  6. embrasure: Wordnik
  7. embrasure: Wiktionary
  8. embrasure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. embrasure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. embrasure: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. embrasure: Dictionary.com
  12. embrasure: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Embrasure (dentistry), Embrasure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Embrasure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. embrasure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. embrasure: Rhymezone
  17. Embrasure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. embrasure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. embrasure: FreeDictionary.org
  20. embrasure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. embrasure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. embrasure: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrasure: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embrasure: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrasure: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. embrasure: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Embrasure: Castle Terms
  2. embrasure: A Word A Day

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Embrasure: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embrasure)

noun:  (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement; an opening in a wall or parapet through which ordnance can be fired.
noun:  (figurative) Any small protected space.
noun:  The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
noun:  (obsolete) An embrace.

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