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bartizan
On a fortified wall, a small overhanging structure with lookout holes and loops, often at a corner or near an entrance gateway.
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So whereas the author of Waverley documented his stories and the buildings in which they transpired (reclaiming such archival words as 'bartisan'), Dickens covered his traces with erasures: 'You may seek in vain, now, for the spot on which these sisters lived, for their very names have passed away, and dusty antiquaries tell of them as of a fable', and again, 'That stone has worn away and been replaced by others'.
George Eliot's 'Glue Test' Language, law, and legitimacy in Silas Marner
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