bretesche

== English == === Etymology === From Old French bretesche. === Noun === bretesche (plural bretesches) Alternative form of brattice. 1894, Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society (Southampton, England), Papers and Proceedings, page 263: ... still further west , upon which a bretesche would rest overhanging the entrance. The keep entrance was dealt with at the same time, the existing ribbed inner portion, replacing the Norman entrance which has entirely disappeared. == Old French == === Noun === bretesche oblique singular, f (oblique plural bretesches, nominative singular bretesche, nominative plural bretesches) a sort of lookout station cum defensive outpost, a brattice