Donjon

From LoveToKnow 1911

DONJON (from a Late Lat. accusative form domnionem, connected with domnus or dominos, a lord), the French term for the keep of a medieval castle, used now in distinction to "dungeon", the prison, which is only an anglicized spelling (see also Keep).


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