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Barbette

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bar⋅bette

  [bahr-bet]
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–noun
1. (within a fortification) a platform or mound of earth from which guns may be fired over the parapet instead of through embrasures.
2. Navy. an armored cylinder for protecting the lower part of a turret on a warship.
Origin:
1765–75; < F, equiv. to barbe beard + -ette -ette, prob. from the general metaphorical use of barbe for something which protrudes or faces outward

Bar⋅bette

  [bahr-bet]
–noun
a female given name, form of Barbara.
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bar·bette   (bär-bět')   
n.  

  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.


[French, diminutive of barbe, beard; see barb1.]
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