All three gates were strongly fortified with towered and buttressed barbicans which must be taken before the main gates could be reached.
Iztacmaxitlan is said to have been the next stage after leaving Xocotla, and is described as a populous district, with a strong city or fortress on a high rock, defended bybarbicans and ditches.
The temple which we had just visited covered a prodigious extent of ground, and diminished gradually from the base to the platform on the top, having five concavities like barbicans between the middle and the top, but without parapets.
There are a few barbicans remaining perfect in England, as at Warwick and Alnwick.
In these plans the situation of the castle on one side of the town, and of the different barbicans as described by the Seneschal, are very clearly marked.
Carcassone was surrounded with a double wall, furnished as usual with towers, and having several barbicans in advance of its various gates.
Seven barbicans are set so securely that no manner of shooting from without can cause harm.
The seven barbicans we call the seven fair virtues, that suffered no vice to be in our Lady.
Some of the barbicans before the gates were in the enemy's possession, and even the Peter Gate itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbicans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
