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Bastion

A bastion is a structure projecting outward from the curtain wall of a fortification, most commonly angular in shape and positioned at the corners of the fort. The fully developed bastion consists of two faces and two flanks, with fire from the flanks being able to protect the curtain wall and the adjacent bastions. Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defence in the age of gunpowder artillery. As military architecture, the bastion is one element in the style of fortification dominant from the mid 16th to mid 19th centuries.

Grey

Grey or gray is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a rain or storm cloud, of ash, and of lead.

bastion

Noun

1. A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
2. A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.

Verb

1. To furnish with a bastion.

grey

Adjective

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.
2. Synonym of coloured (pertaining to the mixed race of black and white).

Verb

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of gray.