单词 | motte-and-bailey |
释义 | motte-and-baileyadjective Denoting a castle consisting of a fort on a motte surrounded by a bailey.Furnival was, however, not the castle's founder - for it was originally built around 1100 as an earthwork motte-and-bailey fortress by a Norman knight called William de Lovetot....
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