tourelle

Borrowed from French tourelle.

tourelle (plural tourelles)

1. A turret.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 45:

     At each corner of the court rises a quaint and crusty little tourelle from which the beseiged could keep up a raking fire along the thick walls.

From tour +‎ -elle.

• IPA^(key): /tuʁɛl/

tourelle f (plural tourelles)

1. turret (of building, tank)
2. conning tower (of submarine)

• “tourelle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).