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Barbican

noun
1.
A tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle).  Synonym: barbacan.





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... taken a large house in Barbican, for the reception of scholars; but the numerous relations of his wife, to whom he generously granted refuge for awhile, occupied his rooms. In time, however, they went away; "and the house again," ...
— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson


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