bastion
noun
a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.
bastioned
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a word derived from
bastion.
Example Sentences
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But the Germans had not yet solved the Red Army's technique of taking bastioned cities by complex, encircling attacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
For a dry and level site he recommended a bastioned trace; but for wet ditches and for irregular ground, tenaille traces.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
In practice such niceties of course disappeared, though occasionally when the ground allowed of it star forts and bastioned fronts were employed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
