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What is a donjon?

What is a donjon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The fortified tower of a motte or early castle; a keep.
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The hieroglyph deserts the cathedral, and betakes itself to blazoning the donjon keep, in order to lend prestige to feudalism.
As they progressed through the city toward the donjon in the centre of the city, he realised something that he mentally smacked himself for missing.
At Chepstow too, Roman tile and brick was deliberately re-used, here to form a conspicuous string course on the exterior of the Norman donjon.
We reached the chateau, and, as we approached it, saw four gendarmes pacing in front of a little door in the ground floor of the donjon.
In the middle of the court is the donjon, which contains the archives and the treasure.
The gaolers obeyed, and soon the merchant and isoline disappeared with them in the depths of the subterranean donjon.

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