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Definition of "martello" [martello]

  • Alternative form of Martello. (noun)

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Use "martello" in a sentence
  • "For a long time people supposed they were called martello towers from the man who built them, but I found in a book that the name came from a vine that grew over this one in Corsica."
  • "At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea."
  • "Something in his look and manner took her memory back to the first night at Aldborough, when she had opened her mind to him in the darkening solitude — when they two had sat together alone on the slope of the martello tower."