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bastille
(encz) | bastille,bastila Zdeněk Brož |
bastille
(encz) | bastille,pevnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastille
(encz) | bastille,vězení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Bastille
(gcide) | Bastile \Bas*tile"\ Bastille \Bas*tille"\(b[.a]s*t[=e]l" or
b[.a]s"t[-e]l; 277), n. [F. bastille fortress, OF. bastir to
build, F. b[^a]tir.]
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1. (Feud. Fort.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the
defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
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The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls.
--Holland.
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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.
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bastille
(wn) | Bastille
n 1: 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
2: a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical
manner) |
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bastille
(encz) | bastille,bastila Zdeněk Brožbastille,pevnost n: Zdeněk Brožbastille,vězení n: Zdeněk Brož |
bastille
(wn) | Bastille
n 1: 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
2: a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical
manner) |
bastille day
(wn) | Bastille Day
n 1: a legal holiday in France celebrating the storming of the
Paris bastille in 1789 [syn: Bastille Day, 14 July] |
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