barbette
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French barbette.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbarbette (plural barbettes)
- A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 276:
- Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate.
- (nautical) The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.
- 1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899:
- The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Irish: bairbéad
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbarbette f (plural barbettes)
Descendants
edit- → Czech: barbeta
- → English: barbette
- → Irish: bairbéad
- → Portuguese: barbeta, barbete
- → Spanish: barbeta
Further reading
edit- “barbette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editNoun
editbarbette f
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