redoubt
noun Fortification.
Origin of redoubt
Redoubt
noun
Related Words for redoubt
bastion, garrison, fortress, mainstay, rampart, barrier, citadel, fortification, bulwark, keep, fastness, castle, fort, presidio, camp, station, acropolis, blockhouse, stronghold, parapetExamples from the Web for redoubt
Contemporary Examples of redoubt
He and the troops then retreated across New Jersey to a winter redoubt.
The Fuhrer may have fallen but his ideology persists in this redoubt of Nazism, untroubled by a sympathetic Argentine regime.
Griffith was elected to a North Alabama district in 2008 that had long been a Democratic redoubt in the midst of a deep red sea.
Or does it want to remain a redoubt for a shrinking minority of older whites?
Even so, he will be calling many of the shots from his Middle East redoubt, a reality few dispute.
Historical Examples of redoubt
The redoubt itself was at the apex of a broad angle of trenches.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
Meanwhile the British right center was held up by the redoubt.
Putnam showed him the redoubt, saying, "There you will be covered."
The Siege of BostonAllen French
For the men in the redoubt there were two more hours of waiting.
The Siege of BostonAllen French
Howe disposed his forces in three columns, to attack the three faces of the redoubt.
The Siege of BostonAllen French