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- noun Plural form of
castle .
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Examples
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I've never been a fan of Ted Nasmith's renderings of people, but I think a series of castles is a great fit for him.
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He left behind a very undistinguished education, getting thrown out of posh boarding schools, to walk at the tender age of 18 from Rotterdam to Istanbul, sleeping in castles and hayricks en route, and ending up living with a Byzantine princess, twelve years his senior, in Moldavia until the war separated them.
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Well, there you go, we europeans all live in castles so feel free to come visit sometime
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bunch of British castles 2007
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We got tons of them cause you think we all live in castles – and we do all live in castles!
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bunch of British castles 2007
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Castle Amber is just, that, a castle, so you woulud almost have to be interested in castles or castle design to be keen enough to get this, if not an Amber freak.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Visual Guide to Castle Amber - Roger Zelazny Blue Tyson 2006
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Clandestine closets and hidden passageways are the stuff of legend in English castles and country homes.
Catholic Revival 2007
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'No; we were reared in castles, and are the children of yonder lords: tell us how the spell that is upon them may be broken!' and immediately the hunter turned from them with an angry look, poured out the milk upon the ground and went away with his empty goblet.
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Welsh chiefs, and were kept in English castles for several years.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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The stairs were not of stone, built in with the original mass of the tower, as in English castles, but of now decayed wood, which shook beneath us, and grew more and more crazy as we ascended.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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The stairs were not of stone, built in with the original mass of the tower, as in English castles, but of now decayed wood, which shook beneath us, and grew more and more crazy as we ascended.
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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