turret

Definition

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.

Etymology

From Middle English touret, from Old French torete (French tourette), diminutive of tour (“tower”), from Latin turris. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and tower. See tower.

Example Sentences

• "Their Victorian house had three turrets and a large amount of gingerbread trim."
• "There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land."
• "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night, Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light."