bartizan

American  

[bahr-tuh-zuhn, bahr-tuh-zan] / ˈbɑr tə zən, ˌbɑr təˈzæn /

noun

Architecture.

1. a small overhanging turret on a wall or tower.

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bartizan British  

/ ˌbɑːtɪˈzæn, ˈbɑːtɪzən, ˌbɑːtɪˈzænd, ˈbɑːtɪzənd /

noun

1. a small turret projecting from a wall, parapet, or tower

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Other Word Forms

• bartizaned adjective

Etymology

Origin of bartizan

1325–75; Middle English alteration of bertisene, misspelling of bretising, variant of bratticing. See brattice, -ing ¹

Example Sentences

According to an old print, it terminated with a large battlement, and bartizan towers at the angles.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Turner, Dawson

When they reached the top, he took them past his door, and higher up the stair to the next, opening on the bartizan.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

The crow’s-nest was built like a bartizan on the precipitous front of the position. 

From A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Stevenson, Robert Louis

"Nay, then I will keep thee company, good Sir Hacon!" smiled the Duchess a little tremulously, "shalt watch with me from the bartizan and tell me how the day goeth with us."

From Beltane the Smith by Farnol, Jeffery

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 Kingston, William Henry Giles