Alcazar: alternatives and connections

A fortress; a fortification for defense.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

The palace of the Moorish kings at Granada.

A room formerly in the Czar's Summer Palace in Russia, which was richly decorated with walls and fixtures made from amber. The amber w…

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

"The Bastille", formerly a castle or fortress in Paris, used as a prison, especially for political offenders; hence, a rhetorical name…

To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or t…

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

An allowance of meat and drink for the tables of inferior officers or servants in a nobleman's palace or at court.

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.

The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.

One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221.…

the room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a chu…