Bastille
/baˈstiːl
/A fortress in Paris built in the 14th century and used in the 17th-18th centuries as a state prison. Its storming by the mob on 14 July 1789 marked the start of the French Revolution.
Origin
Via Old French from Provençal bastida, from bastir 'build'.
Rhymes
- potence
- potency
- potent
- potentacy
- potentate
- potent counter potent
- potented
- potential
- potential barrier
- potential difference
- potential divider
- potential energy
- potential flow
- potential function
- potential gradient
- potentialise
- potentiality
- potentialize
- potentially
- potentially exempt transfer
- potentialness
- potential scattering
- potential temperature
- potential wall
- potential well