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None of those examples are castles. If it's got windows on the ground floor it's a palace, not a castle. It's a castle if a foot-soldier sees it coming over a
by foreigner 11y ago
None of those examples are castles. If it's got windows on the ground floor it's a palace, not a castle. It's a castle if a foot-soldier sees it coming over a rise after trudging for hours through the freezing muck and thinks to himself "Oh man, this is going to suck."
- joshrotenberg 11y agoWhose castle is this? This is the castle of my master, Guy de Lombard.
- regularfry 11y agoWe don't really have an accurate translation of the word "chateau". It's a superset of what we'd call anything from "fort", "castle", "mansion", "palace", "manor house" and anything in between. That being said, the word "chateau" comes from the exact same etymological root as our word "castle", so it's not exactly unfair to use the word.
- azinman2 11y agoThey're not apartments, either!
- Mikeb85 11y agoCastle != Fortress