becastled

adj

becastled

adj

/bɪˈkæsəld/ · /bɪˈkɑːsəld/

Etymology From be- + castle + -ed.

1

Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.

  • As long as you were living in Edinburgh I did not venture to seek you out, for how could I hope, in that becastled town (which, spite of many descriptions, always perplexes me), to find out a quiet friend.1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135

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