Definitions for barbicans

barbicans bar·bi·can

Spelling: [bahr-bi-kuh n]
IPA: /ˈbɑr bɪ kən/

Barbicans is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 347 anagrams from letters in barbicans (aabbcinrs).

Definitions for barbicans

noun

  1. an outwork of a fortified place, as a castle.
  2. a defensive outpost of any sort.

Origin of barbicans

1250-1300; Middle English barbecan, barbican Old French barbacane or Medieval Latin barbacana, perhaps ≪ Persian bālāḥāna terrace over a roof, upper floor, altered by association with Latin b

Examples for barbicans

The said suburb extended from the barbican of the city as far as the corner of the said city.

Some remains of the old barbican were to be seen here in the last century.

We started making them for a retrospective nine years ago that we were invited to in London at the barbican art gallery.

Lunch over, he lit a cigar, and strolled in the direction of the barbican.

He dyed about 1647; buried in Cripplegate church, from his house in the barbican.

They had crossed Smithfield together, and Clennam was left alone at the corner of barbican.

I will be off the landing-place at the barbican with a boat.

The original church was founded in the year 1760, in the barbican.

The barbican was named Bevis's Tower from this legendary story.

A voice from the guardroom in the barbican answer'd him through the darkness.

Word Value for barbicans
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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