Definition of "tourelle" []

• A turret. (noun)

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• "In the cabinet in the tourelle was a narrow opening through which we could see my brother when he went up to the battlements, and the sole pleasure my mother had was to see him through that little chink as he passed in the distance."
• "La Merveille, or perilously lodged on the crumbling cornice of a tourelle, numerous rude altars had been hastily erected."
• "Kirk, and from his little _tourelle_ we could survey as from an eyrie the coming and going of the citizens upon the street."