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Brattishing
- an ornamental cresting of cast or wrought iron, or terracotta crowning a roof or tower. Sometimes refers to ornamental cresting on screens.
BRATTISHING: ornamental cresting. BROACH: a half-pyramid filling the angle between the corner of a square tower and one side of an octagonal spire above or acting as a stop to a chamfered moulding.
couple, barge course, barrel vault, tunnel vault, or wagon vault, base, basement, bay window, bead, beak, bed moulding, belfry, bezant, bezzant, or byzant, billet, binder, bolection or bilection, bottom house, bow, bow window, bracket, brattishing, ...
BrattishingOrnamental crest, often formed of leaves, flowers or miniature battlements, common in late medieval English architecture.Breastshot water wheelOne with water fed on to the wheel at mid-height, falling and passing beneath.
 See also: Screen, Crest, Bracket, Gallery, Cresting
  
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