What's the difference between barbacan and barbican?
Barbacan
Definition:
(n.) See Barbican.
(n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
(n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biotopes are isolated houses with little gardens surrounded by dry-stone walls exhibiting holes named "barbacanes", with chalky soil and xerophytes.
Barbican
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Barbacan
Example Sentences:
(1) "Our common sense is often our worst enemy," said Marcus du Sautoy , the Oxford maths professor who will be appearing in the Barbican season.
(2) Three winners will each receive a pair of tickets to the Observer Ideas festival at The Barbican in London on Sunday 12 October 2014.
(3) A new strand, BBC Arts At ... will feature tie-ups with the Royal Academy of Arts , Opera North, the Barbican, the British Museum and the National Galleries of Scotland.
(4) It included Louise Jeffreys, director of arts at the Barbican, and Anthony Whitworth-Jones, a former boss of both Glyndebourne and Garsington.
(5) It’s thoroughly appropriate that the last large-scale piece he completed was a community and children’s opera, The Hogboon, which will receive its first performance at the Barbican in London in June ; it’s based on an Orkney legend of supernatural beings who inhabit the prehistoric burial mounds that are found all over the islands, and who are entirely benign.
(6) Or the planes that fly behind the towers of the Barbican against a cloudy blue sky; even the notebooks on the floor of my workroom, which stand out as coloured rectangles against the floor.
(7) A 1960s cultural complex, the Lincoln Centre is, like the South Bank and Barbican centres in London, based on the theory that it's a good idea to group several venues in one place, and had similar problems of awkward circulation and hard-to-use public spaces.
(8) The 1992 retrospective at the Barbican finally demolished the patronising view of Gill as a Catholic sculptor, setting him in the mainstream of modern British art.
(9) Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the architects behind projects including the Saatchi Gallery and Barbican Arts Centre, have been appointed to develop the wider plans.
(10) The big surprise of the tour though was the fact that the Barbican probably isn't Brutalist either."
(11) In a statement issued on Wednesday, Gergiev, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg for more than 25 years, said: I am aware of the gay rights protest that took place at the Barbican last week prior to my concert with the LSO.
(12) · Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture is at the Barbican, London EC2, until May 21.
(13) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(14) I hope that when Lyndsey Turner’s Barbican production is officially unveiled to the press, it will not be judged simply as a test of Cumberbatch’s classical skill: Frankenstein alone proved he had the lungs for the part.
(15) Alternatively, they can listen to the soundtrack created specifically for the show by Scottish band Mogwai, who played at The Barbican Centre in London.
(16) Tatchell said the new statement was not enough to call off the protest which will take place outside the Barbican on Thursday before Gergiev conducts the LSO in Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
(17) · Will Oldham is playing at the Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2 (020 7638 8891) on 24 November as part of Further Beyond Nashville.
(18) It's Saturday morning, three weeks into my research for Reading the Riots, and I get a call from a young man I interviewed a week earlier to say four more rioters are willing to meet, and are happy to travel from Stockwell to the Barbican to be interviewed.
(19) JW3 Jewish centre Hampstead "We would like to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Barbican," confirms Viner, "along with the Southbank Centre, or the Roundhouse or Rich Mix."
(20) I've done the same watching classical concerts at the Barbican or jazz in a basement club.