castlette

English

Etymology

From castle +‎ -ette.

Noun

castlette (plural castlettes)

1. (rare) A small castle.
   • 1922, Charles Matlack Price, Poster design:

     In the background were impossible castles and castlettes, precariously perched on isolated pinnacles of rock, which broke out here and there with unlikely trees.

   • 2008 February 20, Leslie Eaton, “Slowdown Hits Towns at Outskirts of Texas Boom”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Once little more than a speed trap 25 miles northeast of Dallas, this town started to boom about a year ago, as turreted stone castlettes and modest brick bungalows began springing up in what had been wheat fields.