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"For eighteen months he had worked in the TV studios at Bristol. A physical description from a woman living two doors away from him in Ealing suggested 'a weakish sort of mouth in which the lower teeth were set small and evenly spaced, like the crenellations of a young boy's toy fort'."
- Colin Dexter, 'The Way Through The Woods'.
"Fortification. A 'license to crenellate' was official permission to raise a fortified building or fortify an existing structure. Jagged protective stonework at the top of a castle wall."