Don Jonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈdʌn.d͡ʒən/

名詞

donjon (plural donjons)

1. The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 106:

     It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.

   • 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:

     […] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.

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