A variant of BRATTICING, used in Architecture, in sense: A cresting of open carved work on the top of a shrine.
1593. Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (1842), 35. Ther was a brattishing on the fore parte of the wainscott or rowffe, very fynely and curiously wrought.
1845. Gloss. Gothic Archit., I. 69. Brattishing.
1851. Pugin, Rood Screens, 32. A very elaborate screen of carved oak, surmounted by open bratishing.
1862. G. Scott, Westm. Abbey (ed. 2), 68. A piece of cresting or brattishing.
1867. H. T. Ellacombe, in Trans. Exeter Dioc. Archit. Soc., I. 106. Surmounted by a brattishing of Tudor flower in burnished brass.
¶ Also a dial. var. of BRATTICING in other senses.
