donjon

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The distant rocks show Titanic walls, lofty donjons, huge projecting bastions, and moats full of deep shade.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He introduced his reader to a huge, gloomy castle, furnished with towers, donjons, subterranean passages, and trapdoors.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

Do you see those round, pot-bellied towers, like tuns of wine stood upon end?" he said—"those donjons at the corners, tapering at the top, and presenting the very image of noble bottles?

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

It had tourelles, emblazoned gateways, bastions, donjons, barbicans; it had innumerable rooms; in the salle des chevaliers two hundred men-at-arms had his ancestors fed at a sitting.

From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec

It is, moreover, according to De Caumont, the most beautiful of all the donjons of France.

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)