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 Balisar’da or Balisardo.Baliverso (in Orlando Furioso). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Balistra’ŕia.
 
Narrow apertures in the form of a cross in the walls of ancient castles, through which cross-bowmen discharged their arrows.   1
 


 Balisar’da or Balisardo.Baliverso (in Orlando Furioso). 

 
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