Bastille is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BASTILLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place, also BASTILE
• a fortress in Paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th–18th centuries as a state prison. Its storming by the mob on 14 July 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution.
• a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
• a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
• a fortress in Paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th–18th centuries as a state prison. Its storming by the mob on 14 July 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution.
• prison
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a prison

Words related to BASTILLE

bastile9 bastilles11 prison8

Words that contain BASTILLE

bastilles11

How to use BASTILLE in a sentence

• She was mistress of Paris, and therefore mistress of the Bastille.
• I telephoned as soon as Rawlins got me to the Bastille.
• In a room, to which we waded at great risk of our clothes, was a representation of the siege of the Bastille, and prints of half a dozen American Generals, headed by Mr.
• The English sallied out of the Bastille by the gate which opened on the fields, and went and took boat in the rear of the Louvre.
• On the 29th of June, 1559, a brilliant tournament was celebrated in lists erected at the end of the street of Saint-Antoine, almost at the foot of the Bastille.
• He ordered the immediate delivery into his hands of the Bastille, the arsenal, and the castle of Vincennes.
• The riot of the 14th of July did not specially deliver prisoners inside the Bastille, but it did deliver the prisoners outside.
• Richelieu, who became jealous of his favour, caused him to be imprisoned in the Bastille in 1631, where he remained for twelve years.
• Eternal torment! I have seen the face of a man who had been in the Bastille, for fifteen years.
• He was always breaking the edicts, and but for the king he would have spent most of his time in the Bastille.
• If the Chevalier returns, it is the Bastille and forgetfulness.
• The shadows of the Bastille and the block cast their gloom upon us.
• And, right in the middle of the causeway to Margny, two arrow-shots from our bridge end, he is letting build a great bastille, and digging a trench wherein men may go to and fro.
• How fertile is the mind of man, which can make the Bastille and dungeon of Vincennes yield interesting anecdotes! You know this was for making four verses on Madame de Pompadour.
• A few days in the Bastille made him think better of his resolution.
• When he left the Bastille, he plotted with his willing mistress his revenge upon her father.
• The plan was unsuccessful, and soon after his return to Paris Brissot was lodged in the Bastille on the charge of having published a work against the government.
• Upon the demolition of the Bastille the keys were presented to him.
• In most of the large towns of England associations were formed for the celebration of the French revolution on the 14th of July, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille.
• The Spaniards had now only the Bastille, the Temple, and the quarters of St.
• While Rohan was allowed to leave the Bastille after a short imprisonment, the woman was brought to trial, and was sentenced to public whipping and branding.
• Not Fleet-street Prison, nor the Bastille itself, went out under a heavier weight of popular odium.
• The monarchy was demolished as rapidly as the Bastille in the sitting of the National Assembly on the evening of August 4.
• The conversation turned on the French Revolution, and the general showed us a key of the Bastille.
• He gave the following account of what occurred at la Place de la Bastille.
• The officers who arrested him conducted him straight to the Bastille, where he passed trembling before a party of soldiers who were loading their muskets.
• He learned that he was to be arrested and sent, not to the Bastille, but to a remote provincial fortress, where he would have been lost to public notice.
• The Bastille was stormed by the furious Parisians and demolished.

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