barbican

[ UK /bˈɑːbɪkən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle)
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  • Former world champion Steve Davis chalks his cue as the UK Snooker Championships got under way today at York's Barbican Centre.
  • The World Champion became only the fifth man to hold UK and World Championships in the same year as he drubbed Ken Doherty 10-1 in the final at the Barbican Centre.
  • The York National Book Fair, which will be taking over the ground floor of the Barbican Centre on Friday and Saturday, is the largest rare, antiquarian and out-of-print book fair in Europe.
  • Tickets £7.50 + bkg fee from Barbican Box Office 020 7638 8891 World Music Central
  • His theatre and auditorium commissions of the 1960s – the new Nottingham Playhouse, the Royal Shakespeare theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, the five auditoria at the Barbican Centre – culminated in providing the seating for 38,000 people at the Mexico City Olympic stadium. Robin Day obituary
  • Known as a barbican, this part of the castle would have a drawbridge, a portcullis, arrow slits, machicolations (murder holes) - any devise that was thought to be useful at stopping the enemy.
  • For one thing, the programmes completed a Barbican cycle of Beethoven's piano concertos with the American soloist Richard Goode.
  • Barbican part of the shell of the house was still standing, roofless, disfloored, diswindowed, and pickaxed into utter raggedness, as so much rubbish yet waiting to be removed from the new railway gap. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
  • The Barbican is the only pool on the south side of York that is within walking distance of the city centre and Yearsley serves a wide area.
  • The elevated walkways must connect with the non-residential Barbican plan.
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