donjon

NOUN
  1. the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
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How To Use donjon In A Sentence

  • Indeed, it was his anxiety to survey the scene while laying siege to the donjon at Challus-Chabrol that brought his premature death.
  • Thus, for example, while ‘brick houses’ or ‘timber - framed houses’ may indeed be found, ‘moats,’ ‘donjons,’ ‘cruck vaulting,’ or ‘keeps’ - all of which are discussed at several points in the text - cannot.
  • Its most impressive feature, a large round tower or donjon, commands an eastern view of the Dee estuary.
  • In others it seemed more entire, and a pillar of dark smoke, which ascended from the chimneys of the donjon, and spread its long dusky pennon through the clear ether, indicated that it was inhabited. The Monastery
  • It had a "donjon," or keep, which was generally occupied by the baron as Comic History of England
  • The blood-red flag on this donjon was, at the era engaging us, the disenchanter of the Greeks; insomuch that in passing the Sweet Waters of The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • While one of the words most commonly identified with castles is ‘keep’, the term is virtually unknown in medieval documentation where the term donjon was generally used.
  • As they progressed through the city toward the donjon in the centre of the city, he realised something that he mentally smacked himself for missing.
  • After passing the donjon, which is situated at the extreme end of the left wing, we went to the back of the chateau. Mystère de la chambre jaune. English
  • And when we approached Fort Henry I fully expected to see some grand, imposing structure with "battled towers," "donjon keep," "portcullis, The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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