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Bartizan
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.

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- A bartizan (an alteration of bratticing), also called a guerite, garita, or échauguette, or spelled bartisan, is an overhanging, wall-mounted turret projecting...
- architect, unknown date Bastion terrace on Belém Tower with its Moorish bartizan turrets and cupolas from the north-west, Lisboa, Portugal, by Francisco...
- The Bartizan of Porto Pim (Portuguese: Torre de Vigia do Porto Pim/Guarita of Porto Pim) is a medieval watchtower located in the civil parish of Angústias...
- ashlars, and bartizan at the ends. Detail of bartizan in south-west corner Strong south curtain wall with bartizan in the background Bartizan between south...
- northeast angle of the structure, protected by a defensive wall with bartizans, is a drawbridge to access the bulwark, decorated in plant motifs, surmounted...
- Wire obstacle Wire entanglement Concertina wire Barbed wire Razor wire Bartizan Bailey Inner bailey Outer bailey Bastion Battery tower Battlement Berm...
- subsequently became a characteristic of many non-military buildings. Arrow slit Bartizan Battlement Bretèche Defensive walls Jettying Murder hole ****ding (castle)...
- accompanied it. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sentry boxes. Police box Bartizan Guardhouse Outpost Blockhouse Compare: Sturgis, Russell, ed. (1901). Sturgis'...
- The militaristic nature of its architecture has been retained with a bartizan and a pyramid of cannonballs at the centre of the theatre. "Fort Antoine"...
- sometimes pierced by an embrasure at the front for a gun to fire through. Bartizan (also guérite or echauguette): a small turret projecting from the parapet...