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barbette

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bar·bette  (bär-bt)
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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Noun1.barbette - (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
hill, mound - structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind"


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The Theodore Roosevelt let fly at once with the big guns in her forward barbette, but the shells burst far below the Vogel-stern, and forthwith a dozen single-man drachenflieger were swooping down to make their attack.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
They stopped up their ears to the musket shots, closed their shutters, barricaded their doors, allowed the matter to be concluded with or without the watch, and the next day it was said in Paris, "Etienne Barbette was broken open last night.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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