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bartizan

/bɑːtɪˈzæn/

bartizan is the alternative form 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

Forms of bartizan

pluralbartizans

Questions about bartizan

What is bartizan the alternative form of?
Bartizan is the alternative form of bartisan.
How do you pronounce bartizan?
Bartizan is pronounced /bɑːtɪˈzæn/.

Words near bartizan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bartizan (page history and authors); bartisan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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