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1. (n.) bastille
(cap.) a fortress in Paris, used as a prison, captured by revolutionaries on July 14, 1789.
2. bastille
any prison or jail.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME bastile < MF)
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1. (noun) Bastille
a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
2. (noun) bastille
a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
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1. bastille
a State prison in Paris, built originally as a fortress of defence to the city, by order of Charles V., between 1369 and 1382, but used as a place of imprisonment from the first; a square structure, with towers and dungeons for the incarceration of the prisoners, the whole surrounded by a moat, and accessible only by drawbridges; "tyranny's stronghold"; attacked by a mob on 14th July 1789; taken chiefly by noise; overturned, as "the city of Jericho, by miraculous sound"; demolished, and the key of it sent to Washington; the taking of it was the first event in the Revolution. See Carlyle's "French Revolution" for the description of the fall of it.
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