Bastille
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noun


(1)   A jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
(2)   A fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution
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Proper noun


  1. A prison in France, the storming of which in 1789 CE began the French Revolution.
 
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