Donjon vs Fort - What's the difference?
donjon | fort | Related terms |
The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
* 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 132:
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
Donjon is a related term of fort.
As a noun donjon
is the fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.As an adjective fort is
.As a verb fort is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- [...] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.
- It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon , or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
