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For many, it will simply be a day off from work and a time to drag out the barbette grill.
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The barbette was on the starboard side of the ship, rising as the port side was sinking.
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The casemate carriage has a lower profile than the barbette carriages.
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The second shell penetrated the barbette of the aft superfiring turret.
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Barbette was championed by avante garde artist Jean Cocteau.
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The main deck armour was increased to 2.5 inches around the barbettes and was extended 55 feet past the rear barbette.
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It ran from barbette to barbette with a one-inch extension forward to the two-inch forward bulkhead well short of the bow.
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The barbette carriages were designed to fire over a parapet and could be used in either permanent or temporary fortifications.
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Barbette began performing as an aerialist at around the age of 14 as one-half of a circus act called The Alfaretta Sisters.
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- (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
- A barbette is a protective circular armour feature around a cannon or heavy artillery gun. The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet (defensive wall) rather than through an opening (embrasure). ...
- Barbette (December 19, 1898 u2013 August 5, 1973) was an American female impersonator, high-wire performer, and trapeze artist born in Texas on December 19, 1899. Barbette attained great popularity throughout the United States but his greatest fame came in Europe and especially Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s.
- The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine
- Usually found only in permanent or semi-permanent fortifications, a barbette was a raised wooden bed or platform that allowed an artillery piece to be fired over protective wall or parapet without exposing its gun crew to the enemy. ...
- A cloth band that went round the face of the wearer under the chin, which together with a band, known as a fillet, around the forehead, was the structure to which the veil, wimple or headdress was pinned. ...
- A piece of white linen pinned to a woman's hair at each side of the head and draped around the chin and in front of the neck. Survives in nun's attire. Worn in the 13th and 14th centuries.
- Band put under chin and fastened on the top of the head, worn by women, 12th-14th centuries.
- A raised terrace from which mounted heavy guns may fire over a parapet.
