1) Castle architecture 2) English girl name 3) Gun platform 4) Hill 5) Mound
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A barbette is a protective circular armour mounting for a cannon or heavy artillery gun. The name comes from the French phrase en barbette, which refers to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet rather than through an embrasure in the fortification. The former gives better angles of fire but less protection than the latter. The disappea...
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[performer] Barbette (December 19, 1898 – August 5, 1973) was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas on December 19, 1899. Barbette attained great popularity throughout the United States but his greatest fame came in Europe and especially Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s. Barbette began perform...
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earthen terrace inside the parapet of a rampart
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• (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
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(from the article `artillery`) In the 1890s the `barbette` mounting for coastal-defense guns became the preferred pattern. Here the mounting was in a shallow pit, protected from ...
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Bar·bette' noun [ French Confer
Barbet .]
(Fort.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
En barbette ,
In barbette ,
said of guns when they are elevated so as to fire over the top of a parapet, and not th...
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A barbette was formerly an earthen platform inside a parapet, from which heavy guns could fire over the top. In modern warfare, a barbette is a remotely controlled housing for defensive guns.
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A barbette is an armoured cylinder below a turret on a warship that protects the revolving structure and foundation of the turret.
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[n] - (formerly) a mound earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
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barbette 1. A platform or mound of earth within a fort from which guns are fired over the parapet. 2. An armored protective cylinder around a revolving gun turret on a warship. 3. From French, a diminutive of barbe, 'beard'.
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noun (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
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supposedly introduced by Eleanor of Aquitaine, was a band of linen encircling the face and pinned into place. At first it was only worn by royal ladies with a circlet or coronet (Fig 11) but was eventually adopted by all classes
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