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bartisans

bartisans is the plural of bartisan.

Meaning of bartisan

Noun

bartisan (plural bartisans)

  1. 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

Questions about bartisans

What is bartisans the plural of?
Bartisans is the plural of bartisan.

Words near bartisans in the dictionary

  1. Bartindale
  2. Bartindales
  3. Bartira
  4. bartisan
  5. bartisaned
  6. bartisans
  7. Bartitsu
  8. bartizan
  9. bartizaned
  10. bartizans
  11. Bartko

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