tourelle
tourelle noun: a turret.
Noun
tourelle (plural tourelles)
- A turret.
- Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
- At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 45
Forms of tourelle
| plural | tourelles |
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Origin of tourelle
Borrowed from French tourelle. Doublet of tor, tower, and turret.
Questions about tourelle
- What does tourelle mean?
- Tourelle means a turret.
- What part of speech is tourelle?
- Tourelle is a noun.
- What is the plural of tourelle?
- The plural of tourelle is tourelles.
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