This wooden story probably formed the bell chamber; the machicolation-like supports still existed in 1781. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Of course not, just look at those gigantic windows and lack of machicolation! posted by Carolingian @ 8:14 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
This wall is far more picturesque than that of Siena, being lofty and built of stone, with a machicolation of arches running quite round its top, like a cornice. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete] Reference
I saw before me a gloomy stronghold of brick, four-square, and built in the old Italian manner, with battlements at the top, and a small machicolation, little more than. From Wordnik.com. [A Gentleman of France] Reference
Consequently they were abandoned, and their places were taken by projecting galleries of stone, supported, not on wooden beams, but on stone corbels, and it is this second stage in fortification which is called machicolation. From Wordnik.com. [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference
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