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

To landward the bastioned turrets known as the “Twelve Apostles” soared into a blue sky; from seaward the rollers were thundering up, in front of a steady north-west breeze.

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

The bastioned system was the 17th-century solution of the fortification problem.

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

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.

From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow