barbette

Borrowed from French barbette.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɑːˈbɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

barbette (plural barbettes)

1. A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 276:

     Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate.

2. (nautical) The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.

• barbette gun
• barbette carriage
• en barbette, in barbette

From barbe +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /baʁbɛt/

barbette f (plural barbettes)

1. (obsolete) small beard
2. (archaic) cowl
3. (fortifications) barbette

• “barbette” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

barbette f

1. plural of barbetta