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

At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century.

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

The elements of the plan are those of the early bastioned trace, but we find added both ravelins and lunettes, very regular in design.

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

But yonder, impassive above this scene of persecution and confusion, towered the bastioned crags of the great mountain.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)