Parapet

Noun

 * 1) A low retaining wall.
 * 2) Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.
 * 3) A fortification consisting of a wall.

Architecture

1. That part of a masonry wall extending above the roof

Adjectives for Parapet
substantial; rugged; gilded; glistening; silvery; military; gun-studded; ominous; warlike; bloody.

Thesaurus
abatis, advanced work, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cofferdam, contravallation, counterscarp, curtain, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, drawbridge, earthwork, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, gravity dam, groin, hydraulic-fill dam, iron curtain, jam, jetty, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, mound, outwork, palisade, parados, portcullis, postern gate, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, roadblock, rock-fill dam, sally port, scarp, sconce, seawall, shutter dam, stockade, stone wall, tackling, tenaille, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

Etymology
From parapet.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"p{r.@.pIt/}}

Translations

 * Italian: parapetto, balaustra, ringhiera
 * Polish: murek, gzyms


 * Polish: parapet, przedpiersie

Noun

 * 1) parapet

Etymology
From parapetto, from parare, to shield + petto, chest.

Anagrams

 * appâter
 * apprêta

Noun

 * 1) sill (base of a window)