The Hound of the Baskervilles vocabulary

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balustrade
minstrels' gallery
balk
wicket
crenelated
lintel
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crenelated

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having a notched ridge. Used to describe certain leaf edges, such as poplar leaves, and castle battlements with crenels.

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From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Great crenellated ramparts, cyclopean, superb, follow the curve of the cliff. On the landward side they are interrupted by a gate-tower resting on one of the most nobly decorated of the horseshoe arches that break the mighty walls of Moroccan cities.

Edith Wharton. In Morocco (1920)
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the crenulated imprint left by the band of her shorts

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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