turreted

[ tur-i-tid, tuhr- ]

/ ˈtɜr ɪ tɪd, ˈtʌr- /

furnished with a turret or turrets.

having a turretlike part or parts.

Zoology. having whorls in the form of a long or towering spiral, as certain shells.

Origin of turreted

First recorded in 1540–50; turret + -ed³

un·tur·ret·ed, adjective

The summons is delivered impartially at the hovels of the poor and the turreted palaces of the rich.

Horace and His Influence |Grant Showerman
The house is old, turreted like a chateau, overgrown with clematis and passion-flower.

Brooke's Daughter |Adeline Sergeant
A parapet encircling the upper part is turreted; and on some of the largest houses guns are mounted.

The Progress of Ethnology |John Russell Bartlett
Contrasted with these arrangements were the castles of the Normans, "tall, turreted, and castellated buildings."

The World of Homer |Andrew Lang

Marbella stands slightly elevated above the sea, and its turreted walls and narrow streets declare it to be thoroughly Moorish.

Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, v. 2/2 |Charles Rochfort Scott

turreted

/ (ˈtʌrɪtɪd) /

having or resembling a turret or turrets

(of a gastropod shell) having the shape of a long spiral