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Bastille

See also: bastille

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A c. 1790 drawing of the east view of the Bastille.

Borrowed from French Bastille, from bastille (“fortress”): see further at the English entry bastille. The building was known in full as the Bastille Saint-Antoine, and was a former fortress used as a prison by the French monarchy in the 17th and 18th centuries.[1]

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the Bastille

  1. A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.

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  1. ^ “bastille, n.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2023; “Bastille, proper n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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From bastille (“fortress”).

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la Bastille f

  1. Bastille (“former prison”)
  2. Parisian district around place de la Bastille, where the prison stood

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