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What (who) is Bastion - definition

STRUCTURE PROJECTING OUTWARD FROM THE CURTAIN WALL OF A FORTIFICATION

Bastions; Demi-bastion; Angled bastion; Angled bastions

bastion

['bast??n]

¦ noun

1. a projecting part of a fortification allowing an increased angle of fire.

2. an institution or person strongly maintaining particular principles, attitudes, or activities.

Origin

C16: from Fr., from Ital. bastione, from bastire 'build'.

bastion

(bastions)

If a system or organization is described as a bastion of a particular way of life, it is seen as being important and effective in defending that way of life. Bastion can be used both when you think that this way of life should be ended and when you think it should be defended. (FORMAL)

...a town which had been a bastion of white prejudice...

The army is still one of the last male bastions.

= stronghold

N-COUNT: with supp, usu N of n

Bastion

·noun A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. ·see Ravelin.

Wikipedia

Bastion

A bastion or bulwark is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defence in the age of gunpowder artillery. As military architecture, the bastion is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries.

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Examples of use of Bastion

1. "Liverpool, bastion of invincibility" was another.

2. Iraq has often been described the bastion of Arabism.

3. Camden is a long–established bastion of Labour support.

4. Tumatangis, near the town of Indanan, an extremist bastion.

5. An explosion rocked Ramadi, another bastion of Sunni Arab revolt.