Home › Words › T › tourelletourelletourelle · noun — A turret.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyBorrowed from French tourelle. Doublet of tor, tower, and turret.nounA turret.e.g.“Large, stately, and dark was its [the château's] outline against the dusky night-sky; there were pepper-boxes and tourelles and what-not fantastically going up into the dim starlight.” — 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.turreted 75% match — Having one or more turrets. vs tourelle →turretlike 71% match — Resembling or characteristic of a turret. vs tourelle →unturreted 68% match — Without turrets. vs tourelle →multiturret 62% match — Having more than one turret. vs tourelle →turrel 61% match — A tool used primarily by coopers to bore holes. vs tourelle →garreted 60% match — Protected by turrets. vs tourelle →towery 59% match — Which has the characteristics of a tower. vs tourelle →tournette 58% match — A simple potter's wheel on which pieces of pottery could be turned by hand vs tourelle →