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bartizans

n. (plural of bartizan English)

Usage examples of "bartizans".

Restless, unable to sleep, he paced the bartizans and battlements, his short cloak flying out behind him like wings, his unkempt hair streaming back from his head in wild disarray.

At the other end of the barbican there was another portcullis, so that you could be trapped between the two and annihilated from above, while the bartizans, or hanging turrets, had holes in their floors through which the defenders could drop things on your head.

Beyond the bridge the Citadel jutted up in an overwhelming display of silvers and blacks-ramparts and turrets hung with banners, spans and iron-railed catwalks, bartizans and spires, jagged steep-sloping roofs and lush, verdant hanging gardens.