motte

A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).

From French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.

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