The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bartizan \Bar"ti*zan`\, n. [Cf. Brettice.] (Arch.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of bartisan English)
Wikipedia
A bartizan, also called a guerite or echauguette, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting from the walls of late medieval and early-modern fortifications from the early 14th century up to the 16th century. Most frequently found at corners, they protected a warder and enabled him to see his surroundings. Bartizans generally are furnished with oillets or arrow slits. The turret was usually supported by stepped masonry corbels and could be round or square.
Bartizans were incorporated into many notable examples of Scots Baronial Style architecture in Scotland. In the architecture of Aberdeen, the new Town House, built in 1868–74, incorporates bartizans in the West Tower.
Usage examples of "bartizan".
FOLLOWING MORNING, before she left the bartizan, Dorcas cut her hair until she almost seemed a boy, and thrust a white peony through the circulet that confined it.
Bella came to an abrupt and stunned stop on the last step out of the bartizan into the great hall.
She embraced Bella at the landing outside of the bartizan that lead to the Chandos family living quarters above the hall.
They then descended the Steeple until they reached the bartizan beneath which the lindworm slumbered.
Rocks and boulders smashed into bartizan and tower, impacted wall, or arced over into the courtyard, before fire silenced catapult and trebuchet.
Holding a torch close by his face, he called up to the amazed sentries in the bartizan to open for him.
The two went down from the bartizan to meet him, and Springbuck considered, as he walked on, the peculiarity of the fact that he felt so much more familiar and at ease with Andre deCourteney, whose abilities and skills were intimidating, than he was with Van Duyn, who was by comparison not that many years older than the Prince, and a common mortal.
LAY for a moment listening to the drip of the rain onto the bartizan outside their chamber.
Toli stood alone on the bartizan outside the banquet hall, overlooking a portion of the garden.
With that Ameronis threw back the coverlet and strode out onto the bartizan and mounted a flight of steps to the battlements.
The commander dipped his head, and Ameronis strode from the wall walk on bare feet, back down the steps and across the bartizan to his chamber.
Ameronis strode from the wall walk on bare feet, back down the steps and across the bartizan to his chamber.
Just then the blast of trumpets rang out above them from the bartizan they had just quitted.
To an observer on the more commodious east bank, it appears to be a rectangular bartizan jutting from the rock, a bartizan four stories high at the side he sees, whose flat, merloned roof terminates against the cliff.
With what joy I beheld it from the roof of the bartizan, green as an emerald in its mantle of forest and round as the lip of a cup!