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What is the noun for embrasures?

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embracement
  1. A clasp in the arms; embrace.
  2. State of embracing, encompassing or including various items; inclusion.
  3. Act or state of embracing or accepting; willing acceptance.
  4. State of being contained; enclosure.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I watched as they exchanged a warm embracement, their arms wrapped tightly around each other.”
      “He moved forward to her vulnerable neck, she closed her eyes in embracement for the undoubtedly pain to come.”
      “I end with a quotation from a text which advocates both embracement and eventual abandonment, attachment and detachment from text.”
embrace
embrasure
  1. (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
  2. The slanting indentation in a wall for a door or window, such that the space is larger on the inside than the outside.
  3. (obsolete) An embrace.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “She is seething with illusive fragmentary gold being bewitched typhlotic furtive much like a hovering sapphire embrasure or imaginal sanguinary.”
      “The casemate mounted a gun on a pivot which could be traversed to fire through an embrasure.”
      “I propped the M16 on a sandbag in the embrasure in front of me and squinted through the scope.”
embracer
  1. A person who embraces.
  2. A person guilty of embracery; an embraceor.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “We found embracer councils across the political spectrum and involving every tier of local government.”
      “Breitbart News was an early embracer of partisan online journalism and its devoted followers laud it for exposing what they see as leftwing media bias.”
      “He was a relentless critic of the Weimar Republic and apparently an enthusiastic embracer of National Socialism when it came to power.”
embracery
  1. (law) An attempt to bribe or illegally influence a jury or a member of a jury to one side or the other.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Bianca Maria had all her secrets with all her love in the first hour of their embracery.”
embraceability
  1. The quality or state of being embraceable.
embracing
embraceor
  1. Alternative spelling of embracer
embrazure
  1. Alternative form of embrasure
embracements
embrasures
  1. plural of embrasure
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Six steps, alternately black and white, vertically elongated, extend up into the sky, the upper surfaces broken by slits that suggest embrasures.”
      “Here the Tibetans had erected a series of stone embrasures, known to the Indian Army as sangars, now occupied in strength.”
      “All these apartments were now deserted, save for a few flunkeys who stood about desultorily in the window embrasures.”
embraceors
  1. plural of embraceor
embracings
embrazures
  1. plural of embrazure
embraceries
  1. plural of embracery
embracers
  1. plural of embracer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dell has been one of the most aggressive embracers of offshoring operations to the third-world.”
      “By now you're probably just begging for a comparison to those other recent country-educated embracers of technology, Wilco, and public servant that I am, I'll oblige.”
      “The old-age embracers don't see it as an obsession, of course.”
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