MORE castle vocabulary words

CASTLE VOCAB is due this Friday.
Every word you choose from the packet or from our movie notes OR from your own research
is intended to help you build a better castle and understand the purpose of the parts.

Below are a few more definitions of castle parts with extensive, detailed definitions.
You may use these words and definitions for #2 even if you already included a word below in Castle Vocab #1 (because I've made a point of making these definitions very extensive and descriptive with purpose, history, or background).


BARBICAN (GATEHOUSE) 
-- since it's so long, this definition will count as two (2) vocabulary words
Typically one of if not the main entry point in a castle, the barbican is actually one of the weakest or most vulnerable points in a castle's outer curtain unless it is heavily reinforced/fortified.  Two wall towers are built close together, on either side of an entry gate, often with a room or two built between them on the upper floor.  A barbican will be thicker and more heavily reinforced and might include more than one gate (the portcullis first, then another one or two heavy wood gates).  The portcullis is often a gate of criss-crossing heavy iron bars that can be raised or lowered.  Guardrooms would often be to either side of the inside entry way.  The word is from "barbicana," the Latin word meaning "outer fortification of a city or a wall."

GARDEROBE
-- since it's so long, this definition will count as two (2) vocabulary words
The historical term for what is known as the medieval restroom, lavoratory,  privy.  The word itself may have referred at first to a store-room for valuables, but also, by extension, came (clearly) to mean a "private room." The word derives from the French word for "wardrobe," which is a lockable place where clothes are stored.  Today, it is the name given to the castle toilet, most notably the private toilets. In a medieval castle, a garderobe was usually just a small chamber off of a private room, with a place to sit over a simple hole that discharged down a long shaft and into a cesspit.  The medieval garderobe fell out of use with the advent of indoor plumbing, although a small cloak or clothing room can still be called a garderobe today in some European public places.