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brattishing|ˈbrætɪʃɪŋ| A variant of bratticing, used in Architecture, in sense: A cresting of open carved work on the top of a shrine.
1593Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (1842) 35 Ther was a brattishing on the fore parte of the wainscott or rowffe, very fynely and curiously wrought. 1845Gloss. Gothic Archit. I. 69 Brattishing. 1851Pugin Rood Screens 32 A very elaborate screen of carved oak, surmounted by open bratishing. 1862G. Scott Westm. Abbey (ed. 2) 68 A piece of cresting or brattishing. 1867H. T. Ellacombe in Trans. Exeter Dioc. Archit. Soc. I. 106 Surmounted by a brattishing of Tudor flower in burnished brass. ¶ Also a dial. var. of bratticing in other senses. |