Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition: "bartizan"

• Context:
  • "But the closer they drew upon the butcher's abode, the less vociferous the mob's fury became. They were deep in Les Ruelles now, and far from the familiar. Bloodshed and retribution had scattered them widely. The wind was in their faces. The clouds had returned. The children had departed. They shouted to one another for courage, aware all the while that doubtful shapes had begun to gather along the rooftops and chimney pots. At last they arrived at Daumard's home—a weathered corner of ancient fortification and crumbling buttresses within a courtyard. Its crest was overshadowed by an angular bartizan speckled with small empty windows and murder-holes and archer-slits looking inward upon blackness. From corners and cornices grinned fractured gargoyles made nearly featureless by years of rain, freeze and thaw. To the side was a short flight of wide worn steps that ended before a great arched door."
    • Minnis, Michael (1998), "The Butcher of Vyones", in The Sorcerer's Apprentices (Sunken Citadel/Tenoka Press).

• Researcher:
  • Jeffrey Howell

• Report:
  Howell, Jeffrey (2007), "Defining "Bartizan" through Contextual Vocabulary Acquisition"

• Files:
  • demo file
  • sample run