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motte

noun
🔊/mɒt/
🔊/mɑːt/
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  1. the small hill on which the fort is built in a motte-and-bailey castle城堡丘陵（大型城堡中建有堡垒的高地或小山）
    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French, ‘mound’, from Old French mote ‘mound’.