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castlette en · NOUN

Etymology

From castle + -ette.

Meanings

1. (rare) A small castle.
   • In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees. 1922, Charles Matlack Price, Poster design:
   • Once little more than a speed trap 25 miles northeast of Dallas, this town started to boom about a year ago, as turreted stone castlettes and modest brick bungalows began springing up in what had been wheat fields. 2008 February 20, Leslie Eaton, “Slowdown Hits Towns at Outskirts of Texas Boom”, in New York Times:

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