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bretache (1121-25)
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The form brutache is a cross reference to the following entry:

bretache (1121-25)

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bretage,  bretasce,  bretasche,  bretase,  bretaske,  bretaxe,  breteche,  bretesche,  breteske,  bretesse,  bretise;  brestache;  brethache;  britage,  britasche,  britask;  brutache,  brutasche,  brutesche   (bredasche  vegetius2 128.9,  bruchache  Gloss Nequam1 261 ),
(pl. bredesches  vegetius2 128.5,  bretoches  Vernac Glosses 13)  
  FEW:  brittisca 1,538a Gdf:  bretesche 1 1,728c GdfC:  bretesche 8,372b TL: bretesche 1,1137 DEAF:  bretesche  DMF:  bretèche  TLF:  bretèche  OED:  brattice n.  MED:  bretage n.  DMLBS:  bretescha 215c

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mil.archit.brattice, wooden parapet on fortress: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  uns murs lur pert [...] N'i out chernel ne aleur Ne bretache  (ms. brestache) ne nule tur  S Brend mup 1672
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Des bretaskes amont les granz quarels ruant  Rom Chev ANTS 4092
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  les testes copees [...] E fichees sur estaches Par les portes e les britasches  Set Dorm ANTS 182
( MS: s.xiii1 )  antemuralia: barbecans hu brutaches  Vernac Glosses 18
( 1330 )  sur l’entré del dit haven ont levé une britask grant et forte  Rot Parl1 ii 44
♦archit.tower, look-out post, platform: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  (St Gregory) fut enz el trone mis [...] De seinte iglise universale, En la bretesche principale Com eschaugeite  S Greg 1246
( MS: s.xiii1 )  superficies: brutasche  TLL ii 100.68
( MS: s.xiii2 )  specula, -e gallice: (D) bretasche  TLL ii 31
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  esteurent sur un bretache ordiné de gré qe eles puissent ver le rois d’Engleterre et aviser le chivauché  TREVET Cron1 219.11
( MS: s.xiii2 )  phalam: (D) gallice bretasche  TLL ii 18
♦mil.elephant’s tower: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Chargent les chevals e ly bon curser, E as fors olifanz les bretaskes porter, As grans dromedaires la vitaille mener  Rom Chev ANTS 1578
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Venent i dromedayre e olifanz kernuz Qe portent bretasches e chastels voutuz  Rom Chev ANTS 4001
♦archit.spire, steeple: 
( MS: s.xiii )  pinnaculum: bretaches  TLL ii 96
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