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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pùškārnica"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "màzgāl"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tronera"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "embrasyr"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"word": "mazgal"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ambrazúra",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "амбразу́ра"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "agorfa"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saethdwll"
}
],
"word": "embrasure"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "pl",
"2": "ambrazura",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Polish: ambrazura",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Polish: ambrazura"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "амбразура",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: амбразура (ambrazura)\n→ Georgian: ამბრაზურა (ambrazura)",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: амбразура (ambrazura)\n→ Georgian: ამბრაზურა (ambrazura)"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "embraser",
"3": "-ure"
},
"expansion": "embraser + -ure",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From embraser + -ure.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "embrasures",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f"
},
"expansion": "embrasure f (plural embrasures)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"French countable nouns",
"French entries with incorrect language header",
"French feminine nouns",
"French lemmas",
"French nouns",
"French terms suffixed with -ure",
"fr:Architectural elements"
],
"glosses": [
"embrasure"
],
"links": [
[
"architecture",
"architecture"
],
[
"embrasure",
"embrasure#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(architecture) embrasure"
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"topics": [
"architecture"
]
}
],
"word": "embrasure"
}
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