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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Now is the crisis in which to test the remarkable admission of M. Duchatel, in May, '45, that the bastilles of Paris were designed to 'fortify order.'
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
And there are towers and bastilles where hope never enters.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
For two days the bastilles erected by the besiegers against the place were repeatedly attacked by the besieged.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
The bastilles, raised at distances of from two to three hundred fathoms from each other, completely encircled the town, and cut it off from the roads and the upper river.
From The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc by Eug?ne Sue
Their bastilles were found to be full of victual and munitions; and they had abandoned their sick and many of their prisoners.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
