Noun:

கோட்டையின் முன் தள்ளிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் முகப்புடைய பகுதி,

bastions's Usage Examples:

The bridgehead was well protected by these flanking bastions, and for this reason it made an excellent point of departure for an attack.

After bloodshed between the rival fur companies, and their union in 1821, Fort Garry was erected, as a trading post and settlers' depot, and with somewhat elaborate structure, with stone walls, bastions and portholes.

It is surrounded by medieval walls with towers and bastions, and has thirteen suburbs, one lying on an island in the river.

Trani has lost its old walls and bastions, but the 13th-century Gothic citadel is used as a prison.

A strong earthen rampart, flanked with bastions and redoubts, surrounded the City, its liberties, Westminster and Southwark, making an immense enclosure.

It is still surrounded in part by old walls and bastions, while other portions of the whilom fortifications have been converted into pleasant promenades.

Kairawan, in shape an irregular oblong, is surrounded by a crenellated brick wall with towers and bastions and five gates.

The old ramparts and bastions (excluding the circuit of the citadel of 1591, now in great part demolished, in the south-east) make an enceinte of about 41 m.

Its walls are lofty and supported by buttress bastions with loopholed turrets at intervals; the fortifications, however, are but of hard clay and are much out of repair.

The knights strengthened Valletta and its harbour by bastions, curtain-walls, lines and forts, towards the sea, towards the land and on every available point, taking advantage in every particular of the natural rock and of the marvellous advantages of situation, rendering it then almost impregnable.

The town is now fortified, surrounded by a high wall with bastions and loopholes.

The citadel is half a mile north-east of the city, and is surrounded by a rampart with bastions.

A strong wall and bastions, with a broad moat and outworks, and forts on the surrounding heights, give the city an appearance of great strength.

Synonyms:

defense, defence, defence force, defense force,

Antonyms:

offense,