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bastionlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From bastion + -like.

Meanings

1. 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 14, 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:

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