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let's see, there's the bailey, the barbican, the barbizan, the bastille, the courtyard, the drawbridge, the dungeons, the gloriette, the oubliette, the tower, the water-gate....
...not to mention the crenelations on the battlements.
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Dear WW: I hope these glossaries do not spoil your game. I could not think of more than a couple names. You might pick out some entries in thes glossaries to comment on. What I typed into Yahoo! Search box: English castle structural terms There is a considerable degree of duplication. One term I looked for and did not find is ?crenellation? the structures on the battlements that give archers protection while aiming arrows http://www.castlesontheweb.com/glossary.htmlhttp://hexalon.com/hhr/construction.htm[/url
[url]www.oldcastleshop.com/glossary1.htm
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An allure is...?
A barbican is...?
A garderobe?
A sally-port?
(DeeDee, torchère is the word you're looking for.)
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Speaking of torchère's, I bought a lovely standing lamp with a halogen quartz light that was called (what's is a name?) a torchiere. It blew up and set my kitchen on fire. If I hadn't been there, the house would have burned down.
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Actually, the term for the torch holders that I've always understood was used is "sconces". FWIW
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machicolation .
1 an opening in the floor of a projecting gallery or parapet, between the supports or corbels, or in the roof over an entrance, through which hot liquids, heavy stones, etc. could be dropped by the defenders of a fortress
2 a gallery, parapet, etc. with such openings
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