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名詞

tourelle (plural tourelles)

1. A turret.
   • 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:

     Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 45:

     At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.