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
In practice such niceties of course disappeared, though occasionally when the ground allowed of it star forts and bastioned fronts were employed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The town is surrounded by a bastioned enceinte.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth
Every absurdity has been bastioned and barricaded by the power of the state.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
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