A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 148
mes just succeeding the introduc-tion of gun])owder, tiie bastions had somearcliitectural character, in partial reminiscenceof tlie flanking towers of inediLeval castles ; theywere, more<iver, of masonry with somewliat highwalls, and presented an imposing aiqicarance.The modern bastion is, of… … Bastidk : View of the Public Siju-^ke and Covered Street Ad.ioin-ING, AT Monpazier (Dokdoone), Southwestern France. ing wall and ditch was often used to protect theimnicdiatc surroundings of the house ; its stables,gardens, ami the like, as well as the house itself,and the angles of this outer…
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