1archit.mil.barbican, fortified wall, outwork or gateway of a city or castle:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
E drescent chastels, bretaskes ont levees, E font i barbecans e barres cloufichees
2873
(
MS: s.xiiiin
)
murale: (F) barbekane
259
(
MS: s.xiii
) antemuralia: (L) barbekanes
(var.
(C: s.xiiiex) barbekansm berfrays;
(C*: s.xiii) barbecans;
(D*: s.xiii/xiv) barbekans
)
ii 135.49
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
propugnacula: (L) barbakanes vel brutaches
(var. (C: s.xiii2) les bretaches)
ii 70.69
(
1378
)
et le dit barbycan serra doublement embataillez
456
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barbecan (s.xii3/4)