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To form with battlements, as a parapet; to furnish with battlements, as a building. In former times in Europe the right to crenelate was a matter of royal licensure. The adjective crenelate is sometimes used instead of crenelated, the participial adjective from the above verb. (Sturgis, 1900)

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