embattled
/ɛmˈbæt(ə)ld/ adjective C2- Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
- Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.
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