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Castle

noun

A large and stately mansion. Synonym: palace.

A large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack.

(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard. Synonym: rook.

Interchanging the positions of the king and a rook. Synonym: castling.

verb

(past & past part. castled; pres. part. castling)

Move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king.

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"Castle" Quotes from Famous Books

... in its sobriety, remote, yet neither cold nor sad, Etna soared towards the heaven, sending from its summit, on which the snows still lingered, a steady plume of ivory smoke. In the nearer foreground, upon a jagged crest of beetling rock, the ruins of a Saracenic castle dominated a huddled village, whose houses seemed to cling frantically to the cliff, as if each one were in fear of being separated from its brethren and tossed into the sea. And far below that sea spread forth its waveless, silent wonder to ...

— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens

... landscaped twenty years before, occupied a square block in solitary grandeur, the show place of Chippewa. In architectural style it was an impartial mixture of Norman castle, French chateau, and Rhenish Schloss, with a dash of Coney Island about its facade. It represented Old Man Hatton's realized dream ...

— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... Trasmoz. A small village of some 300 inhabitants, situated in the province of Saragossa near the Moncayo and not far from the river Huecha. It contains an ancient castle. See p. ...

— Legends, Tales and Poems • Gustavo Adolfo Becquer

... the Holy City. For while the aristocratic thing was a view, the vulgar thing was a vision; something with which all stories stop, something where the rainbow ends, something over the hills and far away. In Spain they had been victorious; but their castle was not even a castle in Spain. It was a castle east of the sun and west of the moon, and the fairy prince could find it no more. Indeed that idle image out of the nursery books fits it very exactly. For its mystery was and is in standing in ...

— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton

... but I don't want to waste any more of my time over your friend. We must be done with this to- day. Just go and have a look at that garniture de cheminee yonder. There's another, something like it, in the castle of Laeken, but mine's much superior ...

— Chance • Joseph Conrad

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