bastioned

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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

It was a leafy way, and here and there between the trees we had splendid glimpses of the bastioned walls and castle-crowned heights of Avignon.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow

Those of Paris were simply fortresses in miniature, square or pentagonal figures with bastioned fronts and containing defensible barracks.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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