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
The bells were tinkling peacefully for mass as we crossed the little river flowing close behind the backs of the houses, and climbed the grassy height on which the citadel stands bastioned.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
It is a very ancient place, set upon a hill and bastioned round with walls that are too high to scale, and were once impregnable.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine
The bastioned system was the 17th-century solution of the fortification problem.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
