Bartisan vs Barbican - What's the difference?
bartisan | barbican |
(architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
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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:
A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
As nouns the difference between bartisan and barbican
is that bartisan is a parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church while barbican is a tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.bartisan
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* bartizanNoun
(en noun)barbican
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* barbacanNoun
(wikipedia barbican) (en noun)- Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans .