becastled

English

WOTD – 7 May 2012

Etymology

be- +‎ castle +‎ -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈkæsəld/, /bɪˈkɑːsəld/

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Adjective

becastled (not comparable)

1. Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
   • 1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135

     As long as you were living in Edinburgh I did not venture to seek you out, for how could I hope, in that becastled town (which, spite of many descriptions, always perplexes me), to find out a quiet friend.

Translations

furtified or furnished with castles

• Finnish: linnoitettu