Machicoulis

Word MACHICOULIS
Character 11
Hyphenation ‖Ma chi cou lis
Pronunciations N/A

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Makes me think of the _machicoulis_ and pasterns at old ❋ George Allan England (1906)

The walls along the Rhone, especially useful in time of flood, were backed with stone, their battlements and machicoulis renewed. ❋ Various (1885)

We begin at the Porte du Rhône, and skirt the older part of the walls on the northwest with their different style of corbels and machicoulis. ❋ Various (1885)

Gasquet, received 1,273 florins for the completed new tower, with its barbicans, battlements and machicoulis, which was on the site and which retained the appellation of the Tour de la Campane, or Bell Tower. ❋ Various (1885)

The window-and door-openings, the moldings, the accolade over the entrance doorway, and the machicoulis all denote that they belong to the latter half of the fifteenth century. ❋ Various (1885)

One evening I was returning, later than usual, from the promenade in the park, and had paused so often on my way to observe the effect of the purple and rosy-tinted mountains glowing with the last rays of sunset, that it was in quite a dim light that I reached the spot beneath which the ivied head of the old, ruined, red Tour de la Monnaie shows the rents of its _machicoulis_. ❋ Louisa Stuart Costello (1834)

Marguerite, and her Henry, placed in rows at one extremity of the court? how restore those beautifully-carved door-ways, and cornices, and sculptured windows, elaborate to the very roof? or renew the _façade_ next the mountains without effacing that singular line of _machicoulis_ which divides the stages. ❋ Louisa Stuart Costello (1834)

_machicoulis_ or overhanging apertures, great stones that had been piled up there, perhaps generations before, when the place was built. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

'the great number of projections carried on machicoulis, through the openings of which stones and other missiles could be thrown on the heads of assailants.' ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)

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