bartisan

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 side.

词形变化

bartisans plural bartizan alternative

词源

Borrowed by the Scottish novelist Walter Scott (see quotation) from Middle Scots bartisan, variant of bartising, from Middle English bretasynge. Doublet of bratticing.
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