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   Bas·tille

   /baˈstēl/

   

   • 1. 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 July 14, 1789, marked the start of the French Revolution.

   Word Origin via Old French from Provençal bastida, from bastir ‘build’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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