How to pronounce machicolation
American English pronunciation
muh-chik-uh-LAY-shun
- IPA
- /məˌtʃɪkəˈleɪʃən/
- Syllables
- muh · chik · uh · LAY · shun (5 syllables, stress on the 4th)
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What machicolation means
A gap in the floor of a castle's jutting wall-top walkway
In a sentence: From the machicolation, we could look straight down at the moat below the tower.
Where it comes from: It comes through French from a medieval Latin word. No one is sure how that word was first formed.
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