bartisan

English

Alternative forms

• bartizan

Etymology

Scottish form of bratticing.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɑːtɪˈzæn/

Noun

bartisan (plural bartisans)

1. (architecture) A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     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.