unmachicolated

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adjective

Having no machicolations.

Opposite
machicolated
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Meanings

adjective
  1. Having no machicolations.

    every Englishman prefers to have his own castle, however unmachicolated it may be.

    1901, G. S. Layard, “Family Budgets”, in The Cornhill magazine, volume 83, page 659
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    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).

    1929, Findlay Muirhead, Southern Spain and Portugal: with Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Azores, page lxxiv

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
machicolated

Origin

From un- + machicolated.

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Cite this entry
APA

unmachicolated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmachicolated

MLA

“unmachicolated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmachicolated. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmachicolated,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmachicolated.

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