The phrase "a moat with a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific feature or characteristic of a moat, often in a context related to architecture, landscaping, or historical structures.
Example: "The castle was surrounded by a moat with a drawbridge that provided access to the main entrance."
Alternatives: "a moat featuring a" or "a moat containing a".
He bought a château west of Paris, with a cinema and a moat with a submerged glass chamber for viewing carp.
"Unless they have the German wall and a moat with a bunch of crocodiles and piranhas, they're not going to contain those woolly tanks," said State Senator John Brenden of nearby Scobey, who has long done battle on the bison issue in the state Legislature.
The eponymous elephant lives in a house called Homeward, "which is hard to describe, but try to think of about a hundred skyscrapers all joined together and surrounded by a moat with a drawbridge over it, and you'll get some idea of it".
Indeed, Haroué has turrets, a moat with white swans, a formal French garden, an informal English garden, centuries of tapestries and family portraits, Baccarat crystal chandeliers, a chapel and an 18th-century library with floor-to-ceiling enclosed bookcases.
"Actually, I wanted a moat with saltwater gators," he says.
For this project, the designers have even endowed a moat with the shimmering poetry of Lancelot's lake.
Recent heavy rain has led to it being almost completely cut off by a moat with surrounding fields also underwater.
"There was everything in there except for a moat with alligators lapping at immigrants' rear ends," Lemon said.
Colbert also suggested adding a moat with fire and fireproof crocodiles, and, hey, why the heck not?
One recent weekend I had my family out for a beach day in Northern California, and watched in puzzlement as my grandson and his friends tried to fill a moat with water for their sand castle.
It's a fortified manor house, rather than a castle proper, but with a gatehouse that looks like a keep, with battlements and a broad moat - a proper moat, with a river's breadth". At first, he thought his childhood would not be an appealing subject for readers: "Just too posh," he says.
