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TURRET (from O. Fr. tourette, diminutive of tour, tower, mod. Fr. tourelle)

TURRET (from O. Fr. tourette, diminutive of tour, See also:
TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)
tower, mod. Fr. tourelle) , a small See also:

TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower, especially at the angles of larger buildings, sometimes overhanging and built on corbels, when it is often called a " See also:

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)

bartizan " (q.v.), and sometimes rising from the ground .

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