A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
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Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards […]
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1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord: