bartisan
/bɑːtɪˈzæn/
bartisan noun: a parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
Noun
bartisan (plural bartisans)
- A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
- she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated bartisan, or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that...1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter X, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 165
- There were flambeaux on staggering poles every ten strides or so, and at intervals of about a hundred strides, bartizans whose guardroom windows glared like fireworks clung to the bridge piers.1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, pages 131–132
Forms of bartisan
| plural | bartisans |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bartizan |
Origin of bartisan
Borrowed by the Scottish novelist Walter Scott (see quotation) from Middle Scots bartisan, variant of bartising, from Middle English bretasynge. Doublet of bratticing.
Words that rhyme with bartisan
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- trapan
- trepan
Questions about bartisan
- What does bartisan mean?
- Bartisan means a parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
- What part of speech is bartisan?
- Bartisan is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bartisan?
- Bartisan is pronounced /bɑːtɪˈzæn/.
- What is the plural of bartisan?
- The plural of bartisan is bartisans.
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