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单词 bartizan
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bartizann.

/bɑːtɪˈzan/
Forms: 1800s– bartisan, 1800s– bartizan.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: Older Scots bartisan, bartizan.
Etymology: A specific use of Older Scots bartisan, bartizan, variants (earliest attested in the 17th cent.) of bartissing , bartesing , barteseine battlement or parapet, originally a metathesized variant of bratticing n. (compare forms such as bartes at brattice n.), with various remodellings of the ending.
A battlemented parapet at the top of a castle or church; esp. an over-hanging battlemented turret projecting from an angle at the top of a tower, etc.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > turret
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bratticingc1380
tournellea1400
turruletc1620
bartizan1800
turricle1884
c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. (1869) I. 191 Þe hiȝest part of his tour is briteysing of charite.
1483 Cath. Angl. 43/1 Bretasynge, propugnaculum.
1651 Rec. Pittenweem in Statist. Acc. IV. 376 (Jam.) That the morn afternoon the town's colours be put upon the bertisene of the steeple.]
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. ii. 317 Its varying circle did combine Bulwark, and bartisan, and line.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xiii. 186 A bartizan, or projecting gallery, before the windows of her parlour. View more context for this quotation
1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. III. iv. 146 Small stone closets, called Bartizans or machicoulis, are thrown out on corbels immediately over the doorway.
attributive.1800 W. Scott Eve St. John 8 He mounted the narrow stair, To the bartizan seat. [See also the Introd.]figurative.1821 J. Baillie Lady G. Baillie in Metrical Legends Concl. 15 Bartizan of braided locks.
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