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Definition of motte noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

motte

noun
 
/mɒt/
 
/mɑːt/
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  1. the small hill on which the fort is built in a motte-and-bailey castle
    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French, ‘mound’, from Old French mote ‘mound’.
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