Bastille and Tolbooth

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Bastille

Bastille noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: were amazed by the squalid, cramped quarters in the town's historic bastille

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Tolbooth and bastille are semantically related. (Scottish) In some cases you can use "Tolbooth" instead a noun "Bastille".

Tolbooth

Tolbooth noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.

Usage example: Deacon Brodie, thought to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was publicly hung at the site of the old tolbooth of Edinburgh

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Bastille and tolbooth are semantically related. You can use "Bastille" instead a noun "Tolbooth".

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