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Definition of Barbettes
1. barbette [n] - See also: barbette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbettes
Literary usage of Barbettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"barbettes. 20—6 pdr. 12 in. Conning tower. ID—i pdr. Torpedo Tubes (18 in.).
2 Submerged. 3 Above water. ... barbettes. 7 in. Conning tower. Torpedo Tubes. ..."
2. History of the Ancient Christians Inhabiting the Valleys of the Alps: I. The by Jean Paul Perrin, Robert Baird, Samuel Miller, Thomas Bray, Pierre Boyer (1847)
"The barbettes retired into their sugar-loaf, which is a kind of little platform ;
where twelve or fifteen men may stand, with a little hut in a rock, ..."
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