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Small strong edifice occupied by troops and usually surrounded by walls, ditches, and other defensive works;

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  • Striving, ere toiling Kilspindie, the fortalice to gain;
  • But the Baron at breakfast said never a word of the domestic economy of his fortalice.
  • Two or three miserable huts, at the foot of the fortalice, held the bondsmen and tenants of the feuar.
  • It was at the sight of this little fortalice that the misery of her lot pressed hard on the poor Lady of Avenel.
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