bastionlike
adjEtymology From bastion + -like.
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Resembling or characteristic of a bastion.
- We pointed to the bastionlike range we had just come over, the thousands of feet we must climb again to reach the track: […]1964 August 23, Sheila Burnford, “Walking”, in The Atlantic:
- Even from his office in the bastionlike Municipal Building, 19 stories above the silently bustling city, the pressure to run pulls like aggravated gravity on the first-term 61-year-old Manhattan Borough President.1988 November 28, Michel Marriott, “To Run or Not to Run: Dinkins's Struggle”, in The New York Times: