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English
Etymology
From be- + castle + -ed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɪˈkæsəld/, /bɪˈkɑːsəld/
Adjective
becastled (not comparable)
- Fortified by or furnished with a castle or castles.
- 1887, Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle (ed. Charles Eliot Norton; pub. Macmillan), page 135
As long as you were living in Edinburgh I did not venture to seek you out, for how could I hope, in that becastled town (which, spite of many descriptions, always perplexes me), to find out a quiet friend.
Translations
furtified or furnished with castles