Definitions from Wiktionary (Bastille)
▸ noun: A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
▸ noun: Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
▸ noun: (figuratively)
▸ noun: A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
▸ noun: (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”)
▸ noun: (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
▸ verb: (transitive, also figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
Bastille Day,
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Storming of the Bastille,
Place de la Bastille,
Bastille discography,
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▸ noun: A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
▸ noun: Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
▸ noun: (figuratively)
▸ noun: A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
▸ noun: (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”)
▸ noun: (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
▸ verb: (transitive, also figuratively) To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.
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