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Machicolated
Machicolated Ma*chic"o*la`ted, a. [LL. machicolatus, p. p. of machicolare, machicollare. See Machicolation.] Having machicolations. ``Machicolated turrets.' --C. Kingsley.

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- probably from Old French machier 'crush', 'wound' and col 'neck'. The verb Machicolate is first recorded in English in the 18th century, but machicollāre is...
- in existence. The walls are of great strength and are surmounted by machicolated battlements flanked at intervals by 39 m****ive towers and pierced by...
- with such manner of walls and turrets; also to embattle, crenellate and machicolate those towers." It is situated on the top of a slope overlooking the River...
- the keep at Vincennes near Paris began a fashion for tall, heavily machicolated designs, a trend adopted in Spain most prominently through the Valladolid...
- archivolts Tall first floor windows suggesting a piano nobile Belvedere or machicolated signorial towers Cupolas Quoins Loggias Balustrades concealing the roof-scape...
- father-in-law, received royal licence to empark, licence to crenellate and machicolate, and to build walls and towers of brick at his manor of New Hall at Boreham...
- The fort, quadrangular in size, consists of a pentagonal curtain wall machicolated for muskets with rounded corner bastions. On the inner side of the curtain...
- two storeys and a ba****t, seven bays, a dentilled brick course, a machicolated parapet, and a hipped roof. A stone staircase with railings leads up...
- inspired by French models (for example Bricquebec). Both towers are machicolated and Caesar's Tower features a unique double parapet. The two towers are...
- single semicircular stone arch flanked by low, square towers topped with machicolated parapets. The inner face bears the Borgia coat of arms—a bull and an...