MOTTE AND BAILEY


Meaning of MOTTE AND BAILEY in English

noun Date: 1900 a medieval Norman castle consisting of two connecting ditched stockaded mounds with the higher mound surmounted by the keep and the lower one containing barracks and other buildings

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