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Bartisan vs Barbican - What's the difference?

bartisan | barbican |

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

English

Alternative forms

* bartizan

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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

    Noun

    (wikipedia barbican) (en noun)
  • 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 .
  • A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
  • See also

    * bartisan

    References

    * Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language (1766) *