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bastioned
adjective as in fortified
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Example Sentences
The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants.
Monroe is a five-bastioned fort of masonry work, and accordingly might be roughly described as a huge pentagon.
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.
On the left, in an angle formed by the junction of a rivulet with the St. Lawrence, was a square bastioned fort of stone.
For a dry and level site he recommended a bastioned trace; but for wet ditches and for irregular ground, tenaille traces.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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