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 those who objected to casemate fire, the bastioned trace was the way of salvation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Next the detached forts, begun by the French engineers in 1868 and still unfinished in 1870, can be readily recognized by their bastioned trace.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
Before leaving the bastioned system it will be of interest to study a couple of actual and complete examples, one irregular and one regular.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
