English
Alternative spellings
bartizan

Etymology
Scottish form of bratticing.

Pronunciation
IPA|/b�:tɪ�zæn/

Noun
en-noun

1. A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.

#:*1819: she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated bartisan, or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side. � Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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