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bastille

[ba-steel, bas-tee-yuh] / bæˈstil, basˈti yə /










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Another is an American who has built a rambling bastille of words in which meanings are thrown into dungeons, to be reached only through endless labyrinths of painstaking prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

He declared that France "must not become a prisoner in the great bastille over which would float the Anglo-Saxon flags."

From Time Magazine Archive

On Bastille Day the little bastille in the Caribbean fell.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile Marcel had reached the bastille of St. Antoine, where he was met by Maillart and the royal partizans.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine