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Word | Bastille |
French Meaning | prison, bastille, château-fort, ouvrage de fortification, château fort commencé à Paris sous Charles V et qui servit de prison d'Etat avant d'être pris par les insurgés en 1789 (La Bastille-Paris) |
a jail (literally, a French jail) / a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries / a fortress in Paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th–18th centuries as a state prison. Its storming by the mob on July 14, 1789, marked the start of the French Revolution., | |
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Synonyms | jail, cell, prison, brig, confine, dungeon, gaol, jailhouse, jug, keep, lockup, oubliette, pen, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade, bridewell, calaboose, hoosegow, imprison, |
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