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bastilla

bastilla, ~us, ~ia [Fr. bastille] , siege-tower, fortification. s1386 cum vidisset castellum de Brest ‥ velut obsessum duobus castellis ligneis ‥ jussit suos egredi et debellare ~as [v. l. batillas] illas Chr. Angl. 369; s1418 municiones quedam, quas ~os appellant, ante sua menia ‥ eriguntur Ps.-Elmh. Hen. V 59; s1428 (v. bastilliatus); s1435 dux Burgundie obsedit Calisiam; ‥ dux ‥ recessit per fugam, et suum bastellum cremabatur Herrison Abbr. Chr. 5.

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