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barbican

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See also:Barbican

English

Alternative forms

barbacan

Etymology

FromOld Frenchbarbacane, of uncertain origin: compareArabicبَرْبَخ(barbaḵ,“aqueduct, sewer”), andPersianباب‌خانه(bâb-xâne,“gatehouse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bɪkən/
Audio(Southern England): (file)

Noun

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barbican

barbican (pluralbarbicans)

Atower at theentrance to acastle orfortifiedtown.
- 1958,T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, inThe Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.:G. P. Putnam's Sons,→ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
  The stone part of the drawbridge with itsbarbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair.[…] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of thebarbican, which would let them into the moat after all.
Afortress at the end of abridge.
An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrowloophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
- 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 11]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, […],→OCLC:
  Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the highbarbacans.
A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.

Synonyms

(entryway fortification):seeguardhouse

Derived terms

Translations

A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town

Basque:barbakana
Bulgarian:барбакан m(barbakan)
Catalan:barbacana (ca) f
Czech:barbakán m
Dutch:barbacane f
Esperanto:barbakano
Estonian:barbakaan
French:barbacane (fr) f
Galician:barbacá (gl) f
German:Barbakane f
Hungarian:barbakán (hu)
Italian:barbacane (it) m
Latvian:barbakāns m
Lithuanian:barbakanas m
Occitan:barbacana (oc)
Old Portuguese:barvacãa f
Polish:barbakan (pl) m,rondel (pl) m
Portuguese:barbacã (pt) f
Romanian:barbacană (ro) f
Russian:барбака́н (ru) m(barbakán),стре́льница f(strélʹnica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:барбакан m
Roman:barbakan (sh) m
Slovak:barbakán m
Slovene:barbakan m
Spanish:barbacana (es) f
Ukrainian:барбака́н m(barbakán)

See also

bartisan

References

Samuel Johnson,Dictionary of the English Language (1766)
John A. Simpson andEdmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “barbican”, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford:Clarendon Press,→ISBN.

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