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Definition of Gatehouses
1. gatehouse [n] - See also: gatehouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gatehouses
Literary usage of Gatehouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Formal Garden in England by Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1901)
"CHAPTER VIII GARDEN ARCHITECTURE BRIDGES, gatehouses, GATEWAYS, GATES, WALLS,
BALUSTRADES, STAIRS SINCE the disappearance of the formal garden, ..."
2. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1900)
"THE LESSER-KNOWN gatehouses AND GATEWAYS OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. ... Of such
defences, gatehouses and gateways and entrances must, of necessity, ..."
3. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry by John Henry Parker (1859)
"MEDIEVAL gatehouses. AMONG an infinite variety of examples, and even of classes,
gatehouses fall naturally under two great divisions ; those which stand as ..."
4. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"The town monasteries had usually several gatehouses: those in the country but one,
... gatehouses were also attached to bishops' palaces, as at Wells, ..."
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