artisans

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Architects can distinguish between arrowslits, bartizans, and spandrels, while pilots speak of upwash and adverse yaw.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2016

The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Castles aërial, Splendid when falls, Sheen on etherial Vapoury halls, Battlements, bartizans, Phantoms of towers, Fenced round with partisans; Cloud-cauliflowers.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

The other angles have narrow buttresses running up to circular bartizans boldly corbelled out from the battlements.

From The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains by Woodhouse, Frederick W.

At the top, square balconies or bartizans project diagonally from the corners; the whole, though there are but three pyramidal battlements on each side, being even more strongly fortified than the rest of the church.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum