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

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)

Crossing the Loire and entering the city, with its ancient bastioned walls, carried one back a good way into the centuries.

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