bastille

bastille

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1. n. a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) Source: wordnet
2. 1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland. 2. "The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison. Source: webster
3. n. a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution n. a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) Source: ecdict

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