[ourplace] castellated: Word of the Day

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  • Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:03:24 -0800

Dictionary.com Word Of The Day
Feb. 16, 2016 
castellated \KAS-tl-ey-tid\ adjective
1. having many castles.
2. Architecture. built like a castle, especially with turrets and
battlements.
Quotes As we said, history, like the Rhine, passes through a
castellated region, and like that of the river, this stratum begins and
ends suddenly.
-- Samuel Lucas, Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History,
1862 Origin Castellated entered English from the Medieval Latin
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