bretache

== English == === Noun === bretache (plural bretaches) Alternative form of brattice (“structure for attack or defence”). 1859, Henry Bull (of Devizes.), A history military and municipal of the ancient borough of Devizes [by H. Bull]., page 64: A primitive Bretesque or Bretache was generally something salient or projecting. It has been described in some glossaries as a vantage point from which proclamations might be addressed to the citizens; also as a wooden defence […] But whatever be the form or purpose a bretache, the generic idea is wood. This is evident when it occurs in the mandates issued by Henry III. to his architects. At Southampton for instance two bretaches are to be rebuilt […]