tourelle

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tourelle

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Borrowed from French tourelle. Doublet of tor, tower, and turret.

noun tourelles

A turret. 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.

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"tourelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/tourelle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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tourelle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/tourelle

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"tourelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/tourelle.

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@misc{tourelle_2026,
  title = {tourelle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tourelle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}