Citations:bretèche


 * brattice


 * 1858, The Gentleman's Magazine (page 5), or 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: The fourteenth century, page 3:
 * ... positions of assailant and defendant; contributing that "superiority to the attack" which it has maintained to the present day. Fortification necessarily followed the changes in the mode of assault : high walls with bretèches and machicoulis were found to be insufficient against the new agent of offence, and the superiority of earthworks to stone masonry in resisting cannon-balls was early recognised; though, from the great}}
 * 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: The fourteenth century
 * Not the gatehouse only, but the master-tower beyond, is provided with a bretèche. In the palisade by the moat side, we have again the loop-holes and swing shutters noticed under No. 30. The broadrimmed helmet of the robber chief ...
 * 1860, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance, page 430:
 * The defender of town or castle could not peep beyond his bretèche or parapet but an English arrow nailed his cap to


 * nosepiece


 * 1968, Paul Martin, Arms and Armour, from the 9th to the 17th Century
 * The inside of the helmet was padded with a leather skull-piece riveted or sewn in the form of strips meeting at the top ... The so-called bascinet &quot;à bretèche&quot;, favoured during the first half of the 14th century, had a peculiar ...