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noun
- A parapet with battlements projecting from the top of a tower in a castle or church.
- 1819: she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated , or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side. " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Etymology: Scottish form of bratticing.
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