单词 | dungeon fortress |
释义 | > as lemmasdungeon fortress dungeon fortress n. a castle or other stronghold used as a place of imprisonment; a fortress in which prisoners are held in dungeons; also figurative. ΚΠ 1822 S. Rogers Italy: Pt. 1st i. 10 That dungeon-fortress never to be named, Where..Toussaint breathed out his brave and generous spirit. 1880 W. L. M'Farlan in Scotch Serm. 1880 xii. 221 It [sc. scholastic theology] is no longer..an impregnable dungeon fortress of the mind..in which the Christian intellect is hopelessly immured. 1914 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 7 May 186/1 Castello Nuovo, one of the typical dungeon fortresses of the middle centuries. 2014 J. Swafford Beethoven vii. 102 On the fourteenth of July..an armed mob of Parisians stormed the dungeon fortress of the Bastille. < as lemmas |
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