OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 53946

bastille

/bæˈstiːl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fortaleza
Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.
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