1899 18 Feb. 262/1 Cliff-bastions gray, With rock-piled forts,..storm the skies.
1930 J. Huxley ii. 31 Our goal was the cliff-bastion at the north end of Prince Charles's Foreland.
2007 G. McDonald xix. 459 There came to be three rings of battlements around the city, including the cliff bastions.