unmachicolated

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ machicolated

Adjective[edit]

unmachicolated

  1. Having no machicolations.
    • 1901, G. S. Layard, “Family Budgets”, in The Cornhill magazine, volume 83, page 659:
      every Englishman prefers to have his own castle, however unmachicolated it may be.
    • 1929, Findlay Muirhead, Southern Spain and Portugal: with Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Azores, page lxxiv:
      Little remains of the frontier fortresses that gave Castile its name, but early castles with semicircular unmachicolated towers well preserved are Arenas de San Pedro (Avila) and San Servando (outside Toledo).

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