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Dictionary of
French architecture...
- two or
three courses projecting over one another;
those carrying the
machicolations of
English and
French castles had four courses. In
modern chimney construction...
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Boiling oil was
rarely used
because of its cost.
Similar holes,
called machicolations, were
often located in the
curtain walls of castles,
fortified manor...
- with a
projecting wooden platform called a ****ding or brattice.
Stone machicolations performed a
similar function. The
introduction of
gunpowder made tall...
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objects could be
dropped onto
attackers or besiegers;
these are
known as
machicolations.
Battlements have been used for
thousands of years; the
earliest known...
- gatehouses, and
comprised several elements: crenellations, ****dings,
machicolations, and loopholes.
Crenellation is the
collective name for alternating...
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multiple watchtowers, the art of the main gate itself. With a wall with no
machicolations to fire at the
enemy and no fortifications,
Malang Gad is one of the...
- m****ive
circular bastions at intervals, with battlements, embrasures,
machicolations and
string courses. Four
gates were
provided on its four sides, one...
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Kings of Desmond, and
dates from 1446. The
Blarney Stone is
among the
machicolations of the castle. The
castle originally dates from
before 1200, when a...
- to take over six
turns up a
vaulted entrance ramp, over
which were
machicolations for
pouring hot
liquids on
attackers from the
mezzanine above. Secret...
