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Morro Castle

  [mawr-oh, mor-oh; Sp. mawr-raw]
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–noun
a historic fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba.
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Mor·ro Castle   (môr'ō, mŏr'ō)   
A fort at the entrance to the harbor of Havana, Cuba. Built by the Spanish (1589-1597) to protect the city from buccaneers, it was captured by the British in 1762 and bombarded by American forces during the Spanish-American War (1898).
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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