单词 | bastioned |
释义 | bastionedadj. Having a bastion or bastions; fortified or defended with or as if with bastions. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [adjective] > having bastions bastioned1758 1758 C. Vallancey tr. L. A. de la M. Clairac Field Engineer xi. 155 Constructing Half-moons before the Curtains of bastion'd fronts. 1875 Hist. Civil War Amer. I. 457 Closed at the gorge by a bastioned curtain with a lunette. 1905 E. Hutton Cities of Umbria ix. 84 Orvieto, that city of convents and monasteries, on her bastioned hill of pale and tawny tufa. 2018 Berwick Advertiser (Nexis) 14 June Berwick's Elizabethan Walls are the only example of bastioned town walls in Britain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1758 |
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