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TOURELLE A small tower, often trimmed with corbelling.
TOWER A tall structure,either square or round in shape, rising higher than the rest of the building.
Tourelle: A turret projecting from a tower, acting as either a watch tower if provided with machicolations for vertical defence, or just for decoration. See turret.
Touret: See turret.
The distinguishing features are vertical rather than horizontal proportions, small windows, steep roofs, small turrets or tourelles, and a sparing use of Renaissance ornament.
kanontorings بُر'ج دَو'ار في سَفينَه ку"а střeleck věž kanontårn der Geschtzturm πυργίσκος torreta kahuritorn برجک tykkitorni tourelle צְרִי-- -ं-ूरा oklopni toranj pncltorony pelindung ...
Fr. tourelle), a small tower, especially at the angles of larger buildings, sometimes overhanging and built on corbels, when it is often called a "bartizan" (q.v.), and sometimes rising from the ground.
 See also: Turret, House, Church, Hall, Classical
  
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