1. Behind these palaces, extended in all directions, now broken, fenced in, battlemented like a citadel, now veiled by great trees like a Carthusian convent, the immense and multiform enclosure of that miraculous Hotel de Saint-Pol, where the King of France possessed the means of lodging superbly two and twenty princes of the rank of the dauphin and the Duke of Burgundy, with their domestics and their suites, without counting the great lords, and the emperor when he came to view Paris, and the lions, who had their separate Hotel at the royal Hotel.
这一座座华丽公馆的后面，是巧夺天工的圣波尔行宫的围墙，它伸向四面八方，广阔无边，形式多样，时而像一座城堡，有着断垣、绿篱和雉堞，时而像一座女修道院，隐没在大树之中。圣波尔行宫广大无比，法兰西国王在这里足可以冠冕堂皇地安顿二十二位诸如王太子或勃艮第公爵这样身份的王亲国戚，以及他们成群的仆役和侍从，且不谈那班大领主了；皇帝来巴黎观光时也在这里下榻；还有社会名流在这行宫里也各有单独的宅邸。
adj
1. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
e.g. a crenelated molding
Synonym: embattled castled castellated
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2. protected with battlements or parapets with indentations or embrasures for shooting through