tourelle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A turret.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: tourelle