tourelle

English

Borrowed from French tourelle.

tourelle (plural tourelles)

A turret.
- 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
  Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 45:
  At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.

From tour +‎ -elle.

tourelle f (plural tourelles)

单词	tourelle
释义	tourelle English Etymology Borrowed from French tourelle. Noun tourelle (plural tourelles) A turret. 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight. 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 45: At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls. French Etymology From tour +‎ -elle. Pronunciation IPA^(key): /tu.ʁɛl/ Noun tourelle f (plural tourelles) turret (of building, tank) conning tower (of submarine) Derived terms radar tourelle Further reading “tourelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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