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  • adjective Resembling a castle

Etymologies

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castle +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom house with the castlelike turrets, dramatic bay windows, and alleged ghosts had always been a fascination for the town and when it had suddenly come up for sale two months earlier, the Monroes had snapped it up.

    At Hidden Falls Barbara Freethy 2011

  • The seven-bedroom, five-bathroom house with the castlelike turrets, dramatic bay windows, and alleged ghosts had always been a fascination for the town and when it had suddenly come up for sale two months earlier, the Monroes had snapped it up.

    At Hidden Falls Barbara Freethy 2011

  • The sprawling, castlelike structure with five circular towers had sat unused for years until developer Daniel McLean bought the landmark building in 2000.

    Manhattan Valley: Good Side of 96th Street Joseph De Avila 2011

  • Into the face of this cone had been carved a stupendous multilevel castlelike structure.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • We go into an old brick building with round, castlelike turrets.

    Boot Camp Todd Strasser 2010

  • Mr. Brown promptly scheduled a 1 p.m. lunch at the Buffalo Chophouse — a swanky steakhouse that does not open its stately, castlelike wooden doors to the public until 4 p.m., but was happy to accommodate the mayor and Mr. Ford.

    Mr. Ford Takes Buffalo 2010

  • Into the face of this cone had been carved a stupendous multilevel castlelike structure.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

  • She began assembling a gray, plastic castlelike house that looked shockingly like her own.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • The sixty-foot-high building was a giant block of granite capped with castlelike battlements and four octagonal guard towers at its corners.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • She began assembling a gray, plastic castlelike house that looked shockingly like her own.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

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