Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Furnished with turrets or a turret.
- adjective Having the shape or form of a turret, as certain long-spired gastropod shells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with turrets.
- In heraldry, having small towers or turrets set upon it, as a castle or a city wall.
- Formed like a tower: as, a turreted lamp.
- In conchology, having a long or towering spire; turriculated. Also
turrited . See also cut underTurrilites .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with a turret or turrets; specifically (Zoöl.), having the whorls somewhat flattened on the upper side and often ornamented by spines or tubercles; -- said of certain spiral shells.
- adjective Formed like a tower.
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- adjective Having one or more
turrets .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In every direction, the turreted walls surrounding the garden are painted lemon yellow or salmon.
Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Ronda is in Spain, Dizzy on Orange Blossoms" Claudia Ricci 2011
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In every direction, the turreted walls surrounding the garden are painted lemon yellow or salmon.
Claudia Ricci: Seeing Red -- "Ronda is in Spain, Dizzy on Orange Blossoms" Claudia Ricci 2011
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You contemplate the fretwork of your hand—the thin genetic thread that divides you from your simian predecessors, from the lone gunman on a turreted roof.
The Gunman and the Ape Sally Houtman 2011
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There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the biggest surprise was the number of aircraft carriers: Ark Royal, Eagle, Indomitable, Illustrious, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable … their bulldog names went on over two pages.
A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! Ian Jack 2010
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Some of Payne's photos have shades of creepiness: the barbed wire surrounding a turreted building or the cold grandeur of a crumbling marble staircase.
Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic 2010
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Puy-L'Evêque, a town of sand-colored, turreted buildings with red shutters, overlooks the lush Lot Valley.
An Insane Feast in France J. Courtney Sullivan 2011
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To the west of the town, on the B939, is Rufflets hotel www.rufflets.co.uk , a turreted mansion house built in 1924 for Anne Brydon Gilroy, the widow of a wealthy jute baron.
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Born in Paris to English parents, Sisley was fascinated by how light swept across the historic entrance to the town: an arched medieval bridge with a turreted gateway traversing the calm waters of the River Loing.
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His exquisite "Sainte Marguerite Guarding the Sheep" in front of a turreted castle circa 1455, was cut out from a Book of Hours painted for Étienne Chevalier, Charles VII's treasurer.
Past the Crowds, the Louvre's Little Gem of a Show Judy Fayard 2011
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I had a super8 camera with turreted lenses, old audio equipment, and a splicer.
What I really want to do is direct… « Awful Library Books 2010
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