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[bɑːˈstiːl], (Noun)
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- 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 14 July 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution
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Origin
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via Old French from Provençal bastida, from bastir ‘build’
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