Tourelle


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Tourelle

A small projecting turret with a conical roof, especially one located at an outside corner of a building.

turret, tourelle

A diminutive tower, characteristically corbeled from a corner.
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They don't know what Lebanon is, so you need to introduce the country, and what you're doing, and then it snowballs," he says, comparing it to the UK market, where Lebanese wine is already established and where, he says, Domaines des Tourelles is highly appreciated.
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