Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
turret .
Etymologies
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Examples
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We cut some old boxes into turretlike shapes and taped them to the walls of the porch around a rusty picnic table.
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Each arterial cut a five-mile-wide path across the continent and from one end to the other, the only structures along the roadways were the turretlike NorCon Patrol check and relay stations -- looming up at one-hundred-mile intervals like the fire control islands of earlier-day aircraft carriers.
Code Three Rick Raphael 1956
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The ornate plasterwork, the etched-glass doors, the turretlike tower - all of it was their grandfather's pride and joy before it was their father's.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES BARRON 2011
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The ornate plasterwork, the etched-glass doors, the turretlike tower - all of it was their grandfather's pride and joy before it was their father's.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES BARRON 2011
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She was referring not to some steamy romance novel, but to a romantic past: the days when hop barns, those squat, often turretlike structures housing charcoal fires, perfumed the air of central New York with the scent of drying hops.
NYT > Home Page By DANIEL FROMSON 2011
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