barbican

barbican
Synonyms and related words:
abatis, advanced work, antenna tower, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, belfry, bell tower, breastwork, bulwark, campanile, casemate, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, colossus, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cupola, curtain, demibastion, derrick, dike, dome, drawbridge, earthwork, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fence, fieldwork, fire tower, fortalice, fortification, glacis, lantern, lighthouse, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, martello, martello tower, mast, merlon, minaret, monument, mound, obelisk, observation tower, outwork, pagoda, palisade, parados, parapet, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pole, portcullis, postern gate, pylon, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, sally port, scarp, sconce, shaft, skyscraper, spire, standpipe, steeple, stockade, stupa, television mast, tenaille, tope, tour, tower, turret, vallation, vallum, water tower, windmill tower, work

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  • Barbican — Bar bi*can, Barbacan Bar ba*can, n. [OE. barbican, barbecan, F. barbacane, LL. barbacana, barbicana, of uncertain origin: cf. Ar. barbakh aqueduct, sewer. F. barbacane also means, an opening to let out water, loophole.] 1. (Fort.) A tower or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Barbĭcan — Barbĭcan, Vogel, s.u. Bartvogel …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • barbican — ● barbican nom masculin (de barbu et toucan) Oiseau (capitonidé) voisin du pic, au bec denté portant de fortes vibrisses à la base …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • barbican — outer fortification of a city or castle, mid 13c., from O.Fr. barbacane (12c.), a general Romanic word, perhaps ultimately from Arabic or Persian (Cf. bab khanah gate house ) …   Etymology dictionary

  • barbican — ► NOUN ▪ a double tower above a gate or drawbridge of a castle or fortified city. ORIGIN Old French barbacane …   English terms dictionary

  • barbican — [bär′bi kən] n. [ME < OFr barbacane < ML barbacana, < ?] a defensive tower or similar fortification at a gate or bridge leading into a town or castle …   English World dictionary

  • Barbican — Nom vernaculaire ou nom normalisé ambigu : Le terme « Barbican » s applique en français à plusieurs taxons distincts. Barbican …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Barbican — A barbican (from medieval Latin barbecana , outer fortification of a city or castle, a general Romanic word, perhaps from Arabic or Persian cf. bab khanah gate house and towered gateway [ [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=b p=2 Barbican EOL] …   Wikipedia

  • barbican — /bahr bi keuhn/, n. 1. an outwork of a fortified place, as a castle. 2. a defensive outpost of any sort. Also, barbacan. [1250 1300; ME barbecan, barbican < OF barbacane or ML barbacana, perh. Pers balahana terrace over a roof, upper floor,… …   Universalium

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