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bartisan
English
Alternative forms
- bartizan
Etymology
Scottish form of bratticing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??t??zæn/
Noun
bartisan (plural bartisans)
- (architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
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barbican
English
Alternative forms
- barbacan
Etymology
From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic ???????? (barba?, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian ????????? (bâb-khâne, “gatehouse”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b??(?)b?k?n/
Noun
barbican (plural barbicans)
- A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town
- A fortress at the end of a bridge.
- An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses 11:
- Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.
- 1922 James Joyce, Ulysses 11:
- A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
Synonyms
- (entryway fortification): see guardhouse
Translations
See also
- bartisan
References
- Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (1766)
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “barbican”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
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