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‖ tournelle Obs.|turnɛl|
Forms: 4, 6 tornel, 6 tornelle, 6–7 tournel, 7 tornil, tournell, 6–8 tournelle; also 5 turnelle.
[a. OF. tornele, F. tournelle, according to Hatz.-Darm. deriv. of tour tower, influenced by tourner to turn.]
A small tower; a turret. With capital T, name in the 16–18th c. of the building in Paris in which the criminal court sat; hence applied to this court, its prison, and other courts.
a1400Siege of Troy 1015 in Archiv neu. Spr. LXXII. 33 Vche tornel of þe toun þey gonne assaile. 1532Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 147 Payd to R. Grenefelde for poyntyng a tornelle of y⊇ cherche ijs. viijd. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 646 There also is the Tournel, or place where criminall actions are judged, and the Treasure-Chamber for causes touching the Kings revenues. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §29 All runne to the Bastile. The Tournels are presently seized, and all approaches vnto the Bastile are soone wonne. 1689tr. Jurieu's Past. Lett. ii. 43, I was carried to the Tournel, where they put the persons condemned to the Gallies. 1771Ann. Reg. 102 Eleven members of the great council, who composed part of the great chamber and the Tournelle of the new parliament, have resigned their places. |