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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARTIZAN (according to the New See also:English See also:Dictionary, from bertizene, a Scottish corruption of " bratticing " or " See also:brattishing," from O. Fr. bretesche, and meaning a battlemented See also:parapet; apparently first used by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott)  , a small battlemented See also:turret, corbelled out at the See also:angle of a See also:wall or See also:tower to protect a warder and enable him to see around him . Bartizans generally are furnished with oylets or arrow-slits .

End of Article: BARTIZAN (according to the New English Dictionary, from bertizene, a Scottish corruption of " bratticing " or " brattishing," from O. Fr. bretesche, and meaning a battlemented parapet; apparently first used by Sir Walter Scott)
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