Bastion

(noun.) projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.

(noun.) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle.

(noun.) a group that defends a principle; 'a bastion against corruption'; 'the last bastion of communism'.

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• We moved around an angle of the wall and found a low bastion--eight feet high without--ten or twelve within. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The massive towers and bastions are more than thirty feet high, and have been sixty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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