tourelle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tourelle.

Noun

tourelle (plural tourelles)

1. A turret.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 45:

     At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.

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French

Etymology

From tour +‎ -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.ʁɛl/

Noun

tourelle f (plural tourelles)

1. turret (of building, tank)
2. conning tower (of submarine)

Further reading

• “tourelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.