Usually means: Openings for shooting or viewing.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word embrasures:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrasures: Merriam-Webster
  2. embrasures: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embrasures: Vocabulary.com
  4. embrasures: Wordnik
  5. embrasures: Wiktionary
  6. embrasures: Dictionary.com
  7. Embrasures: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. embrasures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embrasures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrasures: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. embrasures: Medical dictionary

(Note: See embrasure as well.)

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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