bartizan
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bartizan
1325–75; Middle English alteration of bertisene, misspelling of bretising, variant of bratticing. See brattice, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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But when he reached the door of it, yielding to a sudden impulse, he turned away, and went farther up the stair, and out upon the bartizan.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
Sometimes in dizzy steps descending, Sometimes in narrow circuit bending, Sometimes in platform broad extending, Its varying circle did combine Bulwark, and bartizan, and line, And bastion, tower, and vantage-coign.
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by William Henry Giles Kingston
We set to work, and soon had doubled back a strip of lead a foot broad from the centre till the glass ended by the bartizan on either side.
From Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease
A protecting bartizan or two, with the addition of small turrets at the angles, much resembling pepper-boxes, had procured for Darnlinvarach the dignified appellation of a castle.
From A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott
When I was in the upmost bartizan we had one of the boniest prospects that could be.
From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Lord John Lauder Fountainhall
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