Meanings (ES + gloss)
bastión
A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
[…] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital…
bastión
A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
bastión
A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
a bastion of hope
the bastion of democracy
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