Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
puerta en codo
English translation:
bent gateway / entrance
Added to glossary by
Charles Davis
Mar 20, 2017 05:02
7 yrs ago
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Spanish term
puerta en codo
Spanish to English
Tech/Engineering
Architecture
"El acceso se realiza a través de unas escaleras y de una interesante puerta en codo, tallados a pico y cincel sobre la roca de base."
Appears to be a specific type of entryway in Spanish castles: http://www.glosarioarquitectonico.com/glossary/puerta-en-cod...
Is there an equivalent English term? "Elbow-shaped doorway", to be literal?
Thanks.
Appears to be a specific type of entryway in Spanish castles: http://www.glosarioarquitectonico.com/glossary/puerta-en-cod...
Is there an equivalent English term? "Elbow-shaped doorway", to be literal?
Thanks.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +1 | bent gateway / entrance | Charles Davis |
4 +1 | dogleg entrance | philgoddard |
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Mar 21, 2017 09:10: Charles Davis Created KOG entry
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bent gateway / entrance
The term of art is "bent", strange though it may sound.
"Puerta en codo" means the same as "en recodo" or "en quiebro", which we've had before:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/architecture/58...
They all mean an entrance or gateway that you had to approach from the side, making a 90º turn, so attackers couldn't use battering rams. It's a feature of Islamic castle-building adopted in the Christian West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_entrance
Here are a couple more references from academic works on the subject to add to those I cited in my answer to the previous question:
"This system was replaced in the thirteenth century by a bent entrance, set in the north side of an elongated tower"
The Medieval City Under Siege, ed. Ivy A. Corfis & Michael Wolfe, 91
https://books.google.es/books?id=OJIFpd09vCgC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA...
"and further sophistication of the bent gateway"
Peter Fraser Purton, A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220, 245
https://books.google.es/books?id=_vSjtwGLBiAC&pg=PA245&lpg=P...
"The reason for concentricity was of course military, but it was also religious, because the inner court, entered through a bent gateway"
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, C.1070-1309, 112
https://books.google.es/books?id=8wNY3gLWMqoC&pg=PA112&lpg=P...
"Puerta en codo" means the same as "en recodo" or "en quiebro", which we've had before:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish_to_english/architecture/58...
They all mean an entrance or gateway that you had to approach from the side, making a 90º turn, so attackers couldn't use battering rams. It's a feature of Islamic castle-building adopted in the Christian West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_entrance
Here are a couple more references from academic works on the subject to add to those I cited in my answer to the previous question:
"This system was replaced in the thirteenth century by a bent entrance, set in the north side of an elongated tower"
The Medieval City Under Siege, ed. Ivy A. Corfis & Michael Wolfe, 91
https://books.google.es/books?id=OJIFpd09vCgC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA...
"and further sophistication of the bent gateway"
Peter Fraser Purton, A History of the Early Medieval Siege, C. 450-1220, 245
https://books.google.es/books?id=_vSjtwGLBiAC&pg=PA245&lpg=P...
"The reason for concentricity was of course military, but it was also religious, because the inner court, entered through a bent gateway"
Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, C.1070-1309, 112
https://books.google.es/books?id=8wNY3gLWMqoC&pg=PA112&lpg=P...
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dogleg entrance
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Example sentence:
The entrance was via a dog-leg passage through a gate tower midway along the north wall.
Once through the entrance, any attacker would have had to negotiate a dog-leg passage
Reference:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craignethan_Castle
http://www.castlesandmanorhouses.com/page.php?key=Blackness%20Castle
Peer comment(s):
agree |
neilmac
: Was going to post L-shaped, not sure if it's the same thing...
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Yes, that's another possibility. Thanks.
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