Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Belonging or pertaining to a castle.

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Examples

  • Domestic events, the private castellar life, were thus exalted; but they could hardly suffice to engross and satisfy the spirit of a warrior and crusader.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • If there is any style which colonists particularly affect, it is the castellar.

    Town Life in Australia Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny 1886

  • Still, as of old, it answers to the contemplative castellar cry, -- "Hail, romancer! come and divert me, -- make me merry!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • "Colonel Beaupree's estate," interrupted Octavia, emphasizing her words with appropriate dramatic gestures, "is of Spanish castellar architecture.

    Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

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