Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hamlet close by or under the walls or protection of a castle: hence Castletown, Castleton, the names of several towns and villages in Great Britain and Ireland.
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Examples
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When she was old enough, she went to the nearest castle-town to beg and play for the crowds.
Story and Podcast: Ties that Bind, Part 2 of 2. | Mind on Fire 2009
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When she was old enough, she went to the nearest castle-town to beg and play for the crowds.
MoF Podcast – Episode 06: Short Story: Ties that Bind, Part 2 of 2. | Mind on Fire 2009
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It is based on ethnographic and archival research in Niihama, a city on the Japanese island of Shikoku known as a “corporate castle-town” of the Sumitomo business group.
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It is based on ethnographic and archival research in Niihama, a city on the Japanese island of Shikoku known as a “corporate castle-town” of the Sumitomo business group.
Hinomaru Mystery 2005
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It is based on ethnographic and archival research in Niihama, a city on the Japanese island of Shikoku known as a “corporate castle-town” of the Sumitomo business group.
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We told you before you brought us to your castle-town that we had no magic.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Forty-five times we have raised a castle-town like this, and forty-four times we have had to abandon it and move on, to keep clear of the Dunawake.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Pity the fellows who get swell-headed in such a place as a castle-town!
Botchan (Master Darling) Soseki Natsume 1891
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Whilst they were resting in the tea-house, the governor of the castle-town arrived, and, asking for Matayémou, said --
Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876
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Then the man who had come up from the castle-town to act as Matayémon's second cried out --
Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876
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