bastille
noun
a fortress in Paris, used as a prison, built in the 14th century and destroyed July 14, 1789.
bastilles
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pluralof bastille.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Or she might march up the right bank, and attack the English where they were strongest and had many bastilles.
From The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism by William Patten
The English had built a fence of strong fortresses called bastilles around Orleans—fortresses which closed all the gates of the city but one.
From Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
Who covered France with mourning, threw families into despair, filled the republic with bastilles, made the republican system so odious, that a slave laden with fetters would have refused to live under it?
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
Before she reached the field the day had been lost and won, the English were in full retreat, and the battle now lay around the bastilles of Saint Loup.
From Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
As Joan had calculated, the garrisons of the other bastilles, to the number of from eight to ten thousand men, decamped in haste during the very first night that followed the capture of the Tournelles.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
