castellated

• “As we wind about the hills we catch sight of tiny hamlets perched on airy crests, recalling the castellated villages of the African Kabylia.”

  The Roof of France

• “The mansion is of that class termed castellated houses, as retaining some of the features of the feudal castle, but accommodated to the more secure and less circumspect usages of a later age.”

  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4

• “The country houses of the nobility and landed gentry were largely built or rebuilt in what was known as the castellated style. [”

  A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

• “At Hogwarts, however, the remote and castellated establishment where Harry Potter pursues his studies, there are girls everywhere: eccentric girls, stalwart girls, mean girls, ghost girls who live in the toilet, girls you get crushes on, girls you can kiss … Is this how a sorcerer is made?”

  Sex and the Single Wizard

• “I knew my exact place on the map, tracing a portion of a castellated line across the neck of Britannia ...”

  zornhau: My Eagle of the Ninth

• “Designed by architect Moshe Safdie, its conical castellated turrets pay homage to the baronial style adopted by Victorian aristocrats and merchants for their Highland shooting lodges.”

  The Guardian: Recession? What recession? Hire a Scottish castle for £60,000 a week

• “There is a castellated former coastguard lookout at Pedn-men-du, where a man used to be stationed to sound the alert when he sighted a shoal of herring.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Land's End, Cornwall

• “Parts of Shaker Heights — where I lived for 11 of the years when those changes supposed to be occurring — may look like Mission Hills with its castellated stone fortresses.”

  2009 April 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews

• “Cwm Gwerin eastwardly is lonelier and finer still, one wall scoured to bare rock by glaciation, a castellated ridge on the other towering above the Afon Hengwm that drains peatlands towards Dylife.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Pumlumon

• “Fleeing the Boardwalk, Charles trudged westward along the sand, castellated cliffs towering above him like battlements, blocking out the stars.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ

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