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say it: bahr-BET
barbette is a noun meaning "(formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet". It is pronounced /bɑɹˈbɛt/ — bahr-BET. It carries one recorded sense.
(formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for barbette come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.