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tourelle

American  
[too-rel] / tʊˈrɛl /

noun

  1. a turret.


Etymology

Origin of tourelle

1300–50; Middle English < Old French; tower 1, -elle

Example Sentences

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But into that rounded plaster tourelle with the belfry a flat door had at one time been placed without interruption to the moulding, and in the result the sun had a frolic indeed.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

A tourelle is shown in the place as having formed part of the house of Marca, the historian of Béarn: there is an inscription on it, and arms, with the date of 1635.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart

One tourelle is particularly sharp and fine, and does not seem to have sustained the slightest injury from time.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart

He met no one on his way as he did so—doubtless, neither the marquise nor her daughter were yet risen—and finding the door in the tourelle with little difficulty, he emerged into the roadway.

From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John

The other has a tourelle of the same kind, but it runs off into Renaissance.

From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Hutton, William Holden