[f. EMBATTLE v.2 + -ING1.] concr. in Her.; see quot. and cf. EMBATTLED ppl. a.2 2.

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1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., The heralds express this embattled line by the term crenellé; and when it has the embattling on both sides … they then call it bretessé.

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