Definition of "gatehouses" [gatehouses]

• Plural form of gatehouse. (noun)

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• "The 20-foot thick concentric rings of walls, multiple towers and gatehouses, heavily protected by portcullises and drawbridges, all testify as to how he expected his style of governance to go down with the locals."
• "She listened to them without really hearing them, then turned her phone off as she stepped through the elaborate iron gates between the two brick gatehouses leading to the oldest part of campus."
• "The commandant and the lieutenant stood in the gatehouses shade."