Definition of "martello" [martello]

• Alternative form of Martello. (noun)

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• "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."