Bastile
n.
1.
1.
(Feud. Fort.)
A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place.
The high
bastiles
. . . which overtopped the walls.
- Holland.
2.
"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name for a prison.
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